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Antipodes

- In Search of the Southern Continent
Af: Avan Judd Stallard Engelsk Paperback

Antipodes

- In Search of the Southern Continent
Af: Avan Judd Stallard Engelsk Paperback
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Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent 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—said to be as large, rich and varied as all the northern lands combined.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 to its Antarctic obsolescence, 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.
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Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent 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—said to be as large, rich and varied as all the northern lands combined.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 to its Antarctic obsolescence, 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.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 336
ISBN-13: 9781925377323
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1925377326
Kategori: Historisk geografi
Udg. Dato: 1 dec 2016
Længde: 21mm
Bredde: 245mm
Højde: 171mm
Forlag: Monash University Publishing
Oplagsdato: 1 dec 2016
Forfatter(e): Avan Judd Stallard
Forfatter(e) Avan Judd Stallard

Kategori Historisk geografi

ISBN-13 9781925377323

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 336

Udgave

Længde 21mm

Bredde 245mm

Højde 171mm

Udg. Dato 1 dec 2016

Oplagsdato 1 dec 2016

Forlag Monash University Publishing

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