O olhar de um viajante no século XIX: Langsdorff em Nossa Senhora do Desterro.

Travel journals constitute an important source for the study of the History of Santa Catarina. This documents have the specificity of being born directly from the subjectivity of an specific person. Many times viewed as an obstacle, this feature offers the possibility of the study of relations that trancends, although are always directly related to the travelers. So, the present article has the purpose of analyzing the views of Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff about the scenery and the inhabitants of Nossa Senhora do Desterro between 1803 and 1804 to demonstrate the multiple questions to be posed by historians to these sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]