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The Cartographic Eye - How Explorers Saw Australia (Hardcover, New): Simon Ryan The Cartographic Eye - How Explorers Saw Australia (Hardcover, New)
Simon Ryan
R2,438 Discovery Miles 24 380 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This volume is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. It is an investigation of the presumptions, aesthetics and politics of Australian explorers texts that looks at the journals of John Oxley, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Sturt and Ludwig Leichhardt, and shows that they are not the simple, unadorned observations the authors would have us believe, but, rather, complex networks of tropes. The text argues that contact with Aborigines and the virgin land are occasions of discursive contest, and that, however much explorers construct themselves as monarchs of all they survey, this monarchy is not absolute. This book intention is to scrutinize and undermine the scientific and literary methodology of exploration.

The Cartographic Eye - How Explorers Saw Australia (Paperback): Simon Ryan The Cartographic Eye - How Explorers Saw Australia (Paperback)
Simon Ryan
R1,168 Discovery Miles 11 680 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This volume is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. It is an investigation of the presumptions, aesthetics and politics of Australian explorers texts that looks at the journals of John Oxley, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Sturt and Ludwig Leichhardt, and shows that they are not the simple, unadorned observations the authors would have us believe, but, rather, complex networks of tropes. The text argues that contact with Aborigines and the virgin land are occasions of discursive contest, and that, however much explorers construct themselves as monarchs of all they survey, this monarchy is not absolute. This book intention is to scrutinize and undermine the scientific and literary methodology of exploration.

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