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European Perceptions of Terra Australis (Hardcover, New Ed)
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European Perceptions of Terra Australis (Hardcover, New Ed)
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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.
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