Antipodes : In Search of the Southern Continent
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 vo...
Main Author: | Stallard, Avan Judd (auth) |
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Format: | eBook |
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Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Monash University Publishing
2016
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Online Access: | Get fulltext |
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