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“The Lapponicum Sea”: Matter, Sense, and Affect in the Botanical Exploration of Southwest China and Tibet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2005

Erik Mueggler
Erik Mueggler
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
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Extract

In his own mission to versify the planet, or at least an exemplary portion of it, Captain Francis Kingdon-Ward (1885–1958) returned repeatedly, even obsessively, to certain places on the alpine plateaus of Northwest Yunnan and Southeast Tibet, where the vegetation, refracted through the Aleph of what I shall argue was a deliberate, laborious, and disciplined optical practice, became liquid, a sea:

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Research Article
Information
Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , July 2005 , pp. 442 - 479
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© 2005 Society for Comparative Study of Society and History

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