Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 The British Way of Tea: Tea as an Object of Knowledge between Britain and China, 1690–1730 19
7. 2 Evliya Çelebi, Explorer on Horseback: Knowledge Gathering by a Seventeenth-Century Ottoman 43
8. 3 Indigenous Voyaging, Authorship, and Discovery 71
9. 4 The World in a Nicknackatory: Encounters and Exchanges in Hans Sloane’s Collection 113
10. 5 A Slaving Surgeon’s Collection: The Pursuit of Natural History through the British Slave Trade to Spanish America 138
11. 6 From the Monumental to Minutiae: Serializing Polynesian Barkcloths in Eighteenth-Century Britain 159
12. 7 Formal Encounters: Education, Evangelization, and the Reproduction of Custom in Seventeenth-Century Peru 189
13. 8 Stadial Environmental History in the Voyage Narratives of George and John Reinhold Forster 206
14. Contributors 229
15. Index 233