The Mapping of Terra Australis
Author: Robert Clancy
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide to early printed maps of Australia, Antarctica and the South Pacific.
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Mapping Antarctica
Author: Robert Clancy
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-12-02
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9400743211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEveryone likes maps and maps are always used to illustrate the many books on the Antarctic. Here the focus is reversed with contemporary maps telling the story – one that should be attractive to the widest audience as it is a unique approach complimenting what has gone before and providing something different for all interested in Antarctica.
Terra Australis: Text Classics
Author: Matthew Flinders
Publisher: Text Publishing
Published: 2012-04-26
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1921961015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
European Perceptions of Terra Australis
Author: Alfred Hiatt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-22
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1317139453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTerra 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. Despite this fact, there has been relatively little sustained scholarly work on European concepts of Terra Australis or the intellectual background to European voyages of discovery and exploration to Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through interdisciplinary scholarly 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 shed new light on familiar texts, people and events - such as the Dutch and French explorations of Australia, the Batavia shipwreck and the Baudin expedition - by setting them in unexpected contexts and alongside unfamiliar texts and people. The book 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.
Early Mapping of Southeast Asia
Author: Thomas Suarez
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 2012-08-07
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1462906966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith dozens of rare color maps and other documents, Early Mapping of Southeast Asia follows the story of map-making, exploration and colonization in Asia from the 16th to the 19th centuries. It documents the idea of Southeast Asia as a geographical and cosmological construct, from the earliest of times up until the down of the modern era. using maps, itineraries, sailing instructions, traveler's tales, religious texts and other contemporary sources, it examines the representation of Southeast Asia, both from the historical perspective of Western exploration and cartography, and also through the eyes of Asian neighbors. Southeast Asia has always occupied a special place in the imaginations of East and West. This book recounts the fascinating story of how Southeast Asia was, quite literally, put on the map, both in cartographic terms and as a literary and imaginative concept.
Mapping Our World
Author: Peter Barber
Publisher: National Library of Australia
Published: 2013-11-01
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 0642278091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe cover image, World Map by Fra Mauro c. 1450, is one of the most important and famous maps of all time. This monumental map of the world was created by the monk Fra Mauro in his monastery on the island of San Michele in the Venetian lagoon. Now the centrepiece of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in St Marc’s Square in Venice, the map in its nearly 600-year history has never left Venice – until now. Renowned for its sheer size - over 2.3 metres square - and stunning colours, the map was made at a time of transition between the medieval world view and new knowledge uncovered by the great voyages of discovery. Brilliantly painted and illuminated on sheets of oxhide, the sphere of the Earth is surrounded by the sphere of the Ocean in the ancient way. Yet Fra Mauro included the latest information on exploration by Portuguese and Arab navigators. Commissioned by King Afonso V of Portugal, it is the last of the great medieval world maps to inspire navigators in the Age of Discovery to explore beyond the Indian Ocean.
Understanding Place
Author: Diana Stuart Sinton
Publisher: ESRI, Inc.
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1589481496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of case studies describes how instructors have used GIS within the traditions of a classical undergraduate education to help students analyze, manage, and visualize information in order to create a realistic learning environment in which students practice inquiry in their fields.
European Perceptions of Terra Australis
Author: Anne M. Scott
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781409426059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTerra 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.
Voyages of Discovery ...
Author: James Cook
Publisher:
Published: 1906
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA narrative of Cook's three voyages to the Pacific and Australasia : the first voyage (in "Endeavour") and the second (in "Resolution" and "Adventure") are largely retold in the third person, with some quotations from Cook's own writings (p. 1-228); the third voyage (in "Resolution" and "Discovery") consists of copious sections of Cook's own account plus accounts by Captains King and Clerke, in addition to the third-person narrative (p. 229-479).
Flinders
Author: Rob Mundle
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Published: 2012-10-30
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0733630006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fascinating story of the exceptional maritime explorer, Matthew Flinders - the man who put Australia on the map. Shipwrecks, storms, death and danger - Matthew Flinders encountered it all on his courageous quest to circumnavigate and chart the treacherous Terra Australis coastline. From the drama of epic voyages and devastating shipwrecks; his part in the naming of Australia; his cruel imprisonment by the French on Mauritius for six long and harrowing years; the heartbreaking separation from his beloved wife; and the comfort he got from his loyal cat, Trim; to his tragic death at just forty. This is a gripping adventure biography that details the life of Flinders, a true hero whose name is forever woven into the fabric of Australian history.
