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Terra Australis Cognita
Author | : Charles de Brosses |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 766 |
Release | : 1768 |
Genre | : Voyages and travels |
ISBN | : YALE:39002032471055 |
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European Perceptions of Terra Australis
Author | : Dr Alfred Hiatt,Dr Anne M Scott,Professor Christopher Wortham,Professor Claire McIlroy |
Publsiher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2013-07-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781409482901 |
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Terra Australis - the southern land - was one of the most widespread concepts in European geography from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, although the notion of a land mass in the southern seas had been prevalent since classical antiquity. Despite this fact, there has been relatively little sustained scholarly work on European concepts of Terra Australis or the intellectual background to European voyages of discovery and exploration to Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through interdisciplinary scholarly contributions, ranging across history, the visual arts, literature and popular culture, this volume considers the continuities and discontinuities between the imagined space of Terra Australis and its subsequent manifestation. It will shed new light on familiar texts, people and events - such as the Dutch and French explorations of Australia, the Batavia shipwreck and the Baudin expedition - by setting them in unexpected contexts and alongside unfamiliar texts and people. The book will be of interest to, among others, intellectual and cultural historians, literary scholars, historians of cartography, the visual arts, women's and post-colonial studies.
The Mapping of Terra Australis
Author | : Robert Clancy |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Antarctica |
ISBN | : UOM:39015041324057 |
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A guide to early printed maps of Australia, Antarctica and the South Pacific.
European Perceptions of Terra Australis
Author | : Alfred Hiatt,Christopher Wortham |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2016-04-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317139454 |
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Terra Australis - the southern land - was one of the most widespread concepts in European geography from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, although the notion of a land mass in the southern seas had been prevalent since classical antiquity. Despite this fact, there has been relatively little sustained scholarly work on European concepts of Terra Australis or the intellectual background to European voyages of discovery and exploration to Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through interdisciplinary scholarly contributions, ranging across history, the visual arts, literature and popular culture, this volume considers the continuities and discontinuities between the imagined space of Terra Australis and its subsequent manifestation. It will shed new light on familiar texts, people and events - such as the Dutch and French explorations of Australia, the Batavia shipwreck and the Baudin expedition - by setting them in unexpected contexts and alongside unfamiliar texts and people. The book will be of interest to, among others, intellectual and cultural historians, literary scholars, historians of cartography, the visual arts, women's and post-colonial studies.
Terra Australis
Author | : Laurent-Frederic Bollée,Philippe Nicloux,Edward Gauvin |
Publsiher | : SelfMadeHero |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : 1906838755 |
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The definitive account of the birth of Australia
Early Voyages to Terra Australis Now Called Australia
Author | : Richard Henry Major |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1859 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : BSB:BSB10465845 |
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Terra Australis Incognita
Author | : Miriam Estensen |
Publsiher | : Allen & Unwin |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2006-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781741760866 |
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In October 1606, the great Spanish navigator Luis Vaes de Torres took two vessels through the waters that divide the land masses of New Guinea and Australia. In a journey of great adventure, courage and hardship, he was the first European to sail through today's Torres Strait and very possibly the first European to sight the east coast of Australia. Terra Australis Incognita focuses new light on the Spanish voyages of discovery that sailed from South America into the unknown south western Pacific in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Crossing the planet's largest ocean in small wooden ships with rudimentary navigation, these Spanish conquistadors were in search of the legendary Great South Land first imagined by the ancient Greeks. This is a story of passionate beliefs, of high hopes and catastrophic failures, of attempted colonies that ended in death and disaster, of violent confrontations and tentative friendship with indigenous people, of a fierce clash of cultures, and relentless ambition in search of the gold of King Solomon's Ophir. It is also the story of the visionary adventurer Quiros who planned a New Jerusalem in today's Vanuatu, the ruthless woman governor Dona Isabel, the Solomon Islander chief Bilebanarra who was a friend of the Spaniards and, of course, the great leader of men Luis Vaes de Torres. Terra Australis Incognita is a thoroughly researched, lucidly written and unique narrative on the little known history of the great Spanish explorations of the Pacific Ocean.
Terra Australis
Author | : Matthew Flinders |
Publsiher | : Text Publishing |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : 9781876485924 |
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First published in two-volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name. Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, Terra Australisis a vital step toward a new understanding of our own history. Flinders tells of meeting and communicating with Aborigines, of the scrub and wilderness. His descriptions of the difficulties that he and his sailors faced still bristle with energy and immediacy two hundred years later. This is Flinders' story in his own words, neglected until now, but destined to be eagerly read by all.