Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent by Stallard, Avan Judd

Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781925377323)

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Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent by Stallard, Avan Judd

Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent

$39.95
Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent by Stallard, Avan Judd

Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent

$39.95
Format: Paperback
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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. 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.

Author: Avan Judd Stallard
ISBN-10: 1925377326
ISBN-13: 9781925377323
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2016
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.60w x 0.80d

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Choice 04/01/2017
By Avan Judd Stallard
By Avan Judd Stallard
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Avan Judd Stallard is an historian, writer of fiction, and editor, based in Wimbledon, United Kingdom. As an historian he is concerned with both the messy detail of what happened in the past and with how scholars "create" history. Broad interests in philosophy, psychology, biological sciences, and philology are underpinned by an abiding curiosity about method and epistemology--how we get to knowledge and what we purport to do with it. Stallard sees great benefit in big picture history and the synthesis of existing corpuses of knowledge and is a proponent of greater consilience between the sciences and humanities. He lives with his wife, and dog Javier.

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