Przestrzenie zdziwienia w tekstach podróżniczych Michała Tyszkiewicza i Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego

Many researchers call the nineteenth century yet another epoch of geographic discoveries. Travel was associated with the development of knowledge and treated as a cognitive adventure. This article attempts to reconstruct the process of cognition described by Michał Tyszkiewicz and Józef Ignacy Kraszewski in their travel writings. I assign primary importance to the category of wonder. The article tries to find out what astonished travelers and how this kind of wonder influenced the image of the world they created.