The Time of the Knights of the Far Seas: Collector and Patron Jind?ich Vavra

Photographic accounts of a 19th-century collector’s travels around the globe

A naturalist, physician and noted collector, Jindrich Vavra (1831-87) gathered an impressive cache of photographs throughout the 19th century in Austria–including from two circumnavigations of the globe. This book makes available his extraordinary collection of images.