Antipodes : in search of the southern continent

The Resource Antipodes : in search of the southern continent

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Antipodes : in search of the southern continent

Title remainder

in search of the southern continent

Statement of responsibility

Avan Judd Stallard

Language

eng

Summary

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 that 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

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

910.9

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Language note

In English

LC call number

G84

LC item number

.S735 2016eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries
bibliography

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