03123 am 22006733u 450 991015174820332120230627224552.01-925377-33-4(CKB)3710000000952124(MiAaPQ)EBC4745388(OCoLC)963937117(ScCtBLL)0ccab48f-8792-4fd7-a2d2-1e3c4e72c265(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28839(EXLCZ)99371000000095212420161207h20162016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierAntipodes in search of the southern continent /Avan Judd StallardClayton, Victoria, AustraliaMonash University Publishing2016Victoria, Australia :Monash University Publishing,2016.©20161 online resource (338 pages) illustrations (some color), mapsAustralian History1-925377-35-0 1-925377-32-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Geography, AncientHistoryDiscoveries in geographyEuropeanHistoryExplorersHistory19th centuryHistoryAntipodesancient geographysouthern explorationgeographical explorationexploration by seadiscoveries in geographydiscovery of Australiacartographyhistorical cartographyimaginative cartographysouthern continentCosmographyTerra AustralisGeography, AncientHistory.Discoveries in geographyEuropeanHistory.ExplorersHistory910.93Stallard Avan Judd952376MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910151748203321Antipodes2152956UNINA