About the Cover Illustration

The illustration on the cover of Geoprocessing with Python is captioned “Man from Dalmatia, Croatia.” Dalmatia is a historical region of Croatia on the Adriatic coast. It was once a province of the Roman Empire, and over its history has been fought over and controlled by the Goths, the Byzantines, the Venetians, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This illustration is taken from a recent reprint of Balthasar Hacquet’s Images and Descriptions of Southwestern and Eastern Wenda, Illyrians, and Slavs published by the Ethnographic Museum in Split, Croatia, in 2008. Hacquet (1739–1815) was an Austrian physician and scientist who spent many years studying the botany, geology, and ethnography of many parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as well as the Veneto, the Julian Alps, and the western Balkans, inhabited in the past by peoples of many different tribes and nationalities. Hand-drawn illustrations accompany the many scientific papers and books that Hacquet published.