Terra Australis: Text Classics
Title | Terra Australis: Text Classics PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Flinders |
Publisher | Text Publishing |
Pages | 307 |
Release | 2012-04-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1921961015 |
In this edited selection of his journals, Matthew Flinders, Australia’s greatest navigator and the man who named our island continent, describes in captivating detail his epic mission to map our shores between 1796 and 1803.
Terra Australis
Title | Terra Australis PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Flinders |
Publisher | Text Publishing |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2012-04-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1921922400 |
First published in two-volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name. Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, Terra Australis is a vital step toward a new understanding of our own history. Flinders tells of meeting and communicating with Aborigines, of the scrub and wilderness. His descriptions of the difficulties that he and his sailors faced still bristle with energy and immediacy two hundred years later. This is Flinders’ story in his own words, neglected until now, but destined to be eagerly read by all ages.
Terra Australis
Title | Terra Australis PDF eBook |
Author | David Williamson |
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Pages | 6 |
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Terra Australis
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Terra Australis
Title | Terra Australis PDF eBook |
Author | Australian National University (Canberra) |
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Terra Australis Cognita or Voyages to the Terra Australis
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Pages | 766 |
Release | 1967 |
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European Perceptions of Terra Australis
Title | European Perceptions of Terra Australis PDF eBook |
Author | Anne M. Scott |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781409426059 |
Terra Australis, the southern land, was one of the most widespread concepts in European geography from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, although the notion of a land mass in the Southern seas had been prevalent since classical antiquity. Through interdisciplinary contributions, ranging across history, the visual arts, literature and popular culture, this volume considers the continuities and discontinuities between the imagined space of Terra Australis and its subsequent manifestation. It will be of interest to, among others, intellectual and cultural historians, literary scholars, historians of cartography, the visual arts, women's and post-colonial studies.