TY  - GEN
AU  - Stallard,Avan Judd
TI  - Antipodes : In Search of the Southern Continent
SN  - oapen_628138
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Clayton, Victoria, Australia
PB  - Monash University Publishing
KW  - Geographical discovery & exploration
KW  - bicssc
KW  - History
KW  - Antipodes
KW  - ancient geography
KW  - southern exploration
KW  - geographical exploration
KW  - exploration by sea
KW  - discoveries in geography
KW  - discovery of Australia
KW  - cartography
KW  - historical cartography
KW  - imaginative cartography
KW  - southern continent
KW  - Cosmography
KW  - Terra Australis
N1  - Open Access
N2  - This book is a new history of an ancient geography. It reassesses the evidence for why Europeans believed a massive southern continent existed, and why they advocated for its discovery. When ships were equal to ambitions, explorers set out to find and claim Terra Australis. Antipodes charts these voyages—voyages both through the imagination and across the High Seas—in pursuit of the mythical Terra Australis. In doing so, the question is asked: how could so many fail to see the realities they encountered? And how is it a mythical land held the gaze of an era famed for breaking free the shackles of superstition? That Terra Australis did not exist didn’t stop explorers pursuing the continent, unwilling to abandon the promise of such a rich and magnificent land till it was stripped of every ounce of value it had ever promised. In the process, the southern continent—an imaginary land—became one of the shaping forces of early modern history. Includes 48 pages of b&w and colour images
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