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100 1 _aStallard, Avan Judd
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245 1 0 _aAntipodes : In Search of the Southern Continent
260 _aClayton, Victoria, Australia
_bMonash University Publishing
_c2016
506 0 _aOpen Access
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520 _aThis 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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546 _aEnglish
650 7 _aGeographical discovery & exploration
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653 _aHistory
653 _aAntipodes
653 _aancient geography
653 _asouthern exploration
653 _ageographical exploration
653 _aexploration by sea
653 _adiscoveries in geography
653 _adiscovery of Australia
653 _acartography
653 _ahistorical cartography
653 _aimaginative cartography
653 _asouthern continent
653 _aCosmography
653 _aTerra Australis
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