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Article: A bay to be dreamed of: British visions of Rio de Janeiro.
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- Portuguese Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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'... Finally there is Rio Bay--the Bay of Bays--to be expected, to be dreamed of' (1)--thus did Richard Burton announce his arrival in Rio de Janeiro, at the end of an uneventful sea voyage from England in 1865, en route for Santos, where he was to serve as consul for four years. (2) Burton's vision of Guanabara Bay was fired by anticipation, as the sight of Rio de Janeiro was one of the highlights of a well-established imaginative geography produced by European voyagers over the previous half-century, most notably in the two decades following the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815. Its outlines had been repeatedly inscribed in a large and heterogeneous archive of ...
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