The Countries of the World

Niagara, western canyons and emigrant wagons feature in these prints from The Countries of the World, Robert Brown's popular...

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Niagara, western canyons and emigrant wagons feature in these prints from The Countries of the World, Robert Brown's popular illustrated geography of the globe. Published by Cassell, with the illustrations here dated 1880, the book described continents, islands, rivers, seas and peoples. North America is a major theme, from the Mississippi valley to hot springs and Pacific railway travel, with cotton loading, pack trains and mining cabins among the scenery. Mexican pyramids, aqueducts and street occupations and Jamaica's Blue Mountains take the journey further. Portraits of Indigenous people reflect the book's Victorian ethnographic approach.

Niagara, western canyons and emigrant wagons feature in these prints from The Countries of the World, Robert Brown's popular illustrated geography of the globe. Published by Cassell, with the illustrations here dated 1880, the book described continents, islands, rivers, seas and peoples. North America is a major theme, from the Mississippi valley to hot springs and Pacific railway travel, with cotton loading, pack trains and mining cabins among the scenery. Mexican pyramids, aqueducts and street occupations and Jamaica's Blue Mountains take the journey further. Portraits of Indigenous people reflect the book's Victorian ethnographic approach.

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