Download or read book The European Quest to Find Terra Australis Incognita written by Barbara Miller and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Terra Australis Incognita written by Miriam Estensen and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1606, the great Spanish navigator Luis Vaes de Torres took two vessels through the waters that divide the land masses of New Guinea and Australia. In a journey of great adventure, courage and hardship, he was the first European to sail through today's Torres Strait and very possibly the first European to sight the east coast of Australia. Terra Australis Incognita focuses new light on the Spanish voyages of discovery that sailed from South America into the unknown south western Pacific in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Crossing the planet's largest ocean in small wooden ships with rudimentary navigation, these Spanish conquistadors were in search of the legendary Great South Land first imagined by the ancient Greeks. This is a story of passionate beliefs, of high hopes and catastrophic failures, of attempted colonies that ended in death and disaster, of violent confrontations and tentative friendship with indigenous people, of a fierce clash of cultures, and relentless ambition in search of the gold of King Solomon's Ophir. It is also the story of the visionary adventurer Quiros who planned a New Jerusalem in today's Vanuatu, the ruthless woman governor Dona Isabel, the Solomon Islander chief Bilebanarra who was a friend of the Spaniards and, of course, the great leader of men Luis Vaes de Torres. Terra Australis Incognita is a thoroughly researched, lucidly written and unique narrative on the little known history of the great Spanish explorations of the Pacific Ocean.
Download or read book European Perceptions of Terra Australis written by Alfred Hiatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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.
Download or read book Terra Australis Incognita Or A New Southern Discovery containing A Fifth Part of the World written by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Terra Australis Incognita; Or, A New Southern Discovery, containing A Fifth Part of the World" by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós was a useful and fascinating text that brought the exotic and largely mysterious world of Australia to readers around the world. Originally written for the Spanish king, the book detailed the writer's explorations so the monarch could make an informed decision about colonial prospects.
Download or read book The Savage Shore written by Graham Seal and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originial edition has subtitle: extraordinary stories of survival and tragedy from the early voyages of discovery to Australia.
Download or read book The Dying Days Of Segregation In Australia written by Barbara Miller and published by Book Venture Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While this book is an up-to-date account of the situation in Australia generally and particularly in Yarrabah, an Aboriginal community near Cairns, Queensland, most of the research was done in 1984. This was an incredibly significant time when nearly 100 years of legal oppression and segregation of Indigenous people in Queensland came to an end. What began in 1897 as legislation to ostensibly protect Indigenous people from white society, including outright slaughter, ended up as the Queensland Aborigines Act which put them on reserves with a permit system like apartheid South Africa? Read real life stories about segregation, self-management, land rights and human rights.
Download or read book The Last Cold Place written by Naira de Gracia and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lab Girl meets Why Fish Don’t Exist in this “compelling blend of memoir, environmental writing, and scientific exploration” (Kirkus Reviews) from a young scientist studying penguins in Antarctica—a firsthand account of the beauty and brutality of this remote climate, the direct effects of climate change on animals, and the challenges of fieldwork. Offering a dramatic, captivating window into a once-in-a-lifetime experience, The Last Cold Place details Naira de Gracia’s time living and working in a remote outpost in Antarctica alongside seals, penguins, and a small crew of fellow field workers. In one of the most inhospitable environments in the world (for humans, anyway), Naira follows a generation of chinstrap penguins from their parents’ return to shore to build nests from pebbles until the chicks themselves are old enough to head out to sea. Naira describes the life cycle of a funny, engaging colony of chinstrap penguins whose food source (krill, or small crustaceans) is powerfully affected by the changing ocean in lively and entertaining anecdotes. Weaving together the history of Antarctic exploration with climate science, field observations, and her own personal journey of growth and reflection, The Last Cold Place illuminates the complex place that Antarctica holds in our cultural imagination—and offers a rare glimpse into life on this uninhabited continent.
Download or read book Ritual Sacrifice written by Brenda Ralph Lewis and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principle of sacrifice is as old as human life itself. This book provides an overview of sacrificial practices around the world since prehistoric times. It also examines the reasons behind these rituals, and in the case of human sacrifice an attempt is made to understand the mentality of the 'victims' who often willingly went to their deaths.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Global Studies written by Helmut K. Anheier and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 2073 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With all entries followed by cross-references and further reading lists, this current resource is ideal for high school and college students looking for connecting ideas and additional sources on them. The work brings together the many facets of global studies into a solid reference tool and will help those developing and articulating an ideological perspective." — Library Journal The Encyclopedia of Global Studies is the reference work for the emerging field of global studies. It covers both transnational topics and intellectual approaches to the study of global themes, including the globalization of economies and technologies; the diaspora of cultures and dispersion of peoples; the transnational aspects of social and political change; the global impact of environmental, technological, and health changes; and the organizations and issues related to global civil society. Key Themes: • Global civil society • Global communications, transportation, technology • Global conflict and security • Global culture, media • Global demographic change • Global economic issues • Global environmental and energy issues • Global governance and world order • Global health and nutrition • Global historical antecedents • Global justice and legal issues • Global religions, beliefs, ideologies • Global studies • Identities in global society Readership: Students and academics in the fields of politics and international relations, international business, geography and environmental studies, sociology and cultural studies, and health.
Download or read book Discovery written by Miriam Estensen and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 1999 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six centuries before the birth of Christ, men began to dream of a vast land at the bottom of the world. This is the story of a quest which, across two millennia, compelled men in small ships to traverse unknown seas and endure great hardship in order to discover the last continent.
Download or read book Australia on the Map 1606 2006 written by and published by R.I.C. Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2006 celebrates the 400th anniversary of European involvement in the discovery and mapping of Australia. The contributions of the Dutch, French and British navigators and explorers, who charted and named much of the coastline, are explored through student activities and teachers notes.
Download or read book Incognita written by Allen G. Mawer and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Isle of Pines Or A Late Discovery of a Fourth Island Near Terra Australis Incognita written by Henry Neville and published by . This book was released on 1668 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Incognita written by G. Allen Mawer and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The southern hemisphere is manly land. So said medieval Europeans, raised on a heavy brew of folklore, biblical revelation and geographical theory. It is how they imagined it. So powerful was the hold of this received wisdom that when geographical discoveries, however insignificants, were made in the southern oceans, they were greeted as evidence that the expected continental landmasses, rich and fertile, might at last have been found.
Download or read book Navigating by the Southern Cross written by Kenneth Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this comprehensive new study, leading historian Kenneth Morgan provides an authoritative account of European exploration and discovery in Australia. Introducing new findings and drawing on the latest in historiographical research, this book situates developments in navigation, nautical astronomy and cartography within the broader contexts of imperial, colonial and maritime history"--
Download or read book The Furthest Shore written by William Lawrence Eisler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of pictorial imagery associated with Terra Australis, showing the link between art and exploration.
Download or read book Antipodes written by Avan Judd Stallard and published by Australian History. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
