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A sketch showing a view of a street in Jodhpur, India.

This sketch shows the Kumbha Rana (Tower of Victory) in Chittorgarh, India.

This sketch shows the view of Udaipur Palace from the courtyard.

This is an image of the cover of Blackwood's Magazine from 1899, in which the first installment of Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' (1899) is included, a story which is based, in part, on Conrad's voyage along the River Congo.

The title page for the 1880 publication of 'What Mr. Darwin Saw in His Voyage Round the World in the Ship "Beagle"'

This is a 1639 pittoresco painting by Claude Lorraine entitle 'La Campiña Romana.'

This is the cover for John Murray's 1871 travel guide 'Handbook for Travellers in Turkey in Asia including Constantinople, the Bosphorus, Dardanelles, Brousa and Plain of Troy.'

Originally written in the second century CE, Pausanias' Description of Greece is shown here in a fifteenth century manuscript, and tells the cultural geography of Greece from a Roman perspective.

John Lockwood Kipling's illustration for Rudyard Kipling's 1895 edition of 'The Two Jungle Books,' for the chapter "Letting in the Jungle"

John Lockwood Kipling's title illustration for Rudyard Kipling's "The Miracle of Purun Bhagat" for the 1895 edition of 'The Two Jungle Books.'