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Book Unveiling Terra Australia

Download or read book Unveiling Terra Australia written by Patrick Moore and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a captivating exploration of Terra Australia in this enlightening journey. Unveiling Terra Australia takes readers on an immersive discovery of the unique landscapes, diverse wildlife, and rich cultural tapestry of the Down Under. From the sun-kissed beaches to the rugged outback, this book unravels the essence of Australia, blending travelogue with cultural insights. Join the adventure and delve into the heart of a continent that beckons with its mysteries and allure.

Book Australia Unveiled

Download or read book Australia Unveiled written by Günter Schilder and published by Computer Science Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1976 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of exploration of Australian coastal regions mainly by the Dutch in the seventeenth century; mostly a cartographical study with brief references to contacts with Aborigines.

Book Australia Unveiled

Download or read book Australia Unveiled written by Günter Schilder and published by Computer Science Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1976 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of exploration of Australian coastal regions mainly by the Dutch in the seventeenth century; mostly a cartographical study with brief references to contacts with Aborigines.

Book Terra Australis to Australia

Download or read book Terra Australis to Australia written by Glyndwr Williams and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Europeans conceived of the southern continent from ancient times until the beginning of the 19th century, the charting of the coastline and the naming of Australia.

Book Terra Australis Gallery  Fitzroy  Vic

Download or read book Terra Australis Gallery Fitzroy Vic written by Terra Australis Gallery (Fitzroy, Vic.) and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Matthew Flinders  Maritime Explorer of Australia

Download or read book Matthew Flinders Maritime Explorer of Australia written by Kenneth Morgan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a thoroughly researched biography of the naval career of Matthew Flinders, with particular emphasis on his importance for the maritime discovery of Australia. Sailing in the wake of the 18th-century voyages of exploration by Captain Cook and others, Flinders was the first naval commander to circumnavigate Australia's coastline. He contributed more to the mapping and naming of places in Australia than virtually any other single person. His voyage to Australia on H.M.S. Investigator expanded the scope of imperial, geographical and scientific knowledge. This biography places Flinders's career within the context of Pacific exploration and the early white settlement of Australia. Flinders's connections with other explorers, his use of patronage, the dissemination of his findings, and his posthumous reputation are also discussed in what is an important new scholarly work in the field.

Book Encountering Terra Australis

Download or read book Encountering Terra Australis written by Jean Fornasiero and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encountering Terra Australis traces the parallel lives and voyages of the explorers Flinders and Baudin, as they travelled to Australia and explored the coastline of mainland Australia and Tasmania. Unusually, the book takes its lead from the voyages of Baudin, rather than Flinders. Furthermore the authors have sourced original accounts including material which has never before been available in English. Extensively illustrated in colour and black and white.

Book Brief History of the Antarctic Exploration

Download or read book Brief History of the Antarctic Exploration written by Gerardo Bartolomé and published by Ediciones Históricas. This book was released on 2024-03-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antarctica, a continent like no other. Not only because of its beauty but also because of its unique history, without wars, kings or indigenous cultures. This book delves into its exploration, offering key insights into events and motivations. A concise overview, it's designed for those preparing for an Antarctic journey or seeking quick insights into its history. With over 150 images, it captures the essence of this exceptional place. For more in-depth explorations, additional resources are suggested in the final appendix. Explore Antarctica's history through a succinct and enjoyable reading experience.

Book Terra Australis  Text Classics

Download or read book Terra Australis Text Classics written by Matthew Flinders and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Out Here Down Under

    Book Details:
  • Author : E. A. Judge
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2023-04-24
  • ISBN : 1666770779
  • Pages : 287 pages

Download or read book Out Here Down Under written by E. A. Judge and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-04-24 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out Here Down Under is a collection of documents and papers illuminating the development and character of ancient ‎history as a discipline in the Antipodes. It considers especially the distinctive and extraordinarily ‎popular program, championed by E. A. Judge, of studying classical and biblical corpora together under ‎one discipline, with an emphasis on the interpretation of documentary sources. ‎In twenty chapters, this volume considers such issues as the relationship between British and ‎Antipodean scholarship, the story and legacy of Antipodean scholars of the ancient world, the ‎nature and ideology of ancient history programs at schools and universities (especially in NSW ‎and at Macquarie), the interaction between biblical and classical disciplines, and the function of ‎history in contemporary Australia. These texts, mostly written by Judge himself throughout his career, appear here with new introductory notes outlining their historical significance for the discipline and Judge’s own practice.

Book Unveiling the Arctic

    Book Details:
  • Author : Louis Rey
  • Publisher : Calgary : Arctic Institute of North America
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Unveiling the Arctic written by Louis Rey and published by Calgary : Arctic Institute of North America. This book was released on 1984 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 27 papers presented at the conference "The History of the Discovery of the Arctic Regions as Seen through the Descriptions of Travellers and the Work of Cartographers from Early Antiquity to the 18th Century" organized by Comite Arctique International and held in Rome in 1981. Also published as vol.37, no.4 (December 1984) of Arctic.

Book Australia Circumnavigated  The Voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator  1801 1803   Volume II

Download or read book Australia Circumnavigated The Voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator 1801 1803 Volume II written by Kenneth Morgan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume work provides the first edited publication of Matthew Flinders’s fair journals from the circumnavigation of Australia in 1801-1803 in HMS Investigator, and of the ’Memoir’ he wrote to accompany his journals and charts. These are among the most important primary texts in Australian maritime history and European voyaging in the Pacific. Flinders was the first explorer to circumnavigate Australia. He was also largely responsible for giving Australia its name. His voyage was supported by the Admiralty, the Navy Board, the East India Company and the patronage of Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. Banks ensured that the Investigator expedition included scientific gentlemen to document Australia’s flora, fauna, geology and landscape features. The botanist Robert Brown, botanical painter Ferdinand Bauer, landscape artist William Westall and the gardener Peter Good were all members of the voyage. After landfall at Cape Leeuwin, Flinders sailed anti-clockwise round the whole continent, returning to Port Jackson when the ship became unseaworthy. After a series of misfortunes, including a shipwreck and a long detention at the Ile de France (now Mauritius), Flinders returned to England in 1810. He devoted the last four years of his life to preparing A Voyage to Terra Australis, published in two volumes, and an atlas. Flinders died on 19 July 1814 at the age of forty. The fair journals edited here comprise a daily log with full nautical information and ’remarks’ on the coastal landscape, the achievements of previous navigators in Australian waters, encounters with Aborigines and Macassan trepangers, naval routines, scientific findings, and Flinders’s surveying and charting. The journals also include instructions for the voyage and some additional correspondence. The ’Memoir’ explains Flinders’ methodology in compiling his journals and charts and the purpose and content of his surveys.

Book Terra Australis Cognita   Or  Voyages to the Terra Australia

Download or read book Terra Australis Cognita Or Voyages to the Terra Australia written by John Callander and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Feeling Things

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephanie Downes
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018-01-13
  • ISBN : 019252366X
  • Pages : 406 pages

Download or read book Feeling Things written by Stephanie Downes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary essay collection investigates the various interactions of people, feelings, and things throughout premodern Europe. It focuses on the period before mass production, when limited literacy often prioritised material methods of communication. The subject of materiality has been of increasing significance in recent historical inquiry, alongside growing emphasis on the relationships between objects, emotions, and affect in archaeological and sociological research. The historical intersections between materiality and emotions, however, have remained under-theorised, particularly with respect to artefacts that have continuing resonance over extended periods of time or across cultural and geographical space. Feeling Things addresses the need to develop an appropriate cross-disciplinary theoretical framework for the analysis of objects and emotions in European history, with special attention to the need to track the shifting emotional valencies of objects from the past to the present, and from one place and cultural context to another. The collection draws together an international group of historians, art historians, curators, and literary scholars working on a variety of cultural, literary, visual, and material sources. Objects considered include books, letters, prosthetics, religious relics, shoes, stone, and textiles. Many of these have been preserved in international galleries, museums, and archives, while others have remained in their original locations, even as their contexts have changed over time. The chapters consider the ways in which emotions such as despair, fear, grief, hope, love, and wonder become inscribed in and ascribed to these items, producing 'emotional objects' of significance and agency. Such objects can be harnessed to create, affirm, or express individual relationships, as, for example, in religious devotion and practice, or in the construction of cultural, communal, and national identities.

Book The Mapping of Terra Australis

Download or read book The Mapping of Terra Australis written by Robert Clancy and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to early printed maps of Australia, Antarctica and the South Pacific.

Book Pacific Futures

    Book Details:
  • Author : Warwick Anderson
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2018-11-30
  • ISBN : 082487742X
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Pacific Futures written by Warwick Anderson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How, when, and why has the Pacific been a locus for imagining different futures by those living there as well as passing through? What does that tell us about the distinctiveness or otherwise of this “sea of islands”? Foregrounding the work of leading and emerging scholars of Oceania, Pacific Futures brings together a diverse set of approaches to, and examples of, how futures are being conceived in the region and have been imagined in the past. Individual chapters engage the various and sometimes contested futures yearned for, unrealized, and even lost or forgotten, that are particular to the Pacific as a region, ocean, island network, destination, and home. Contributors recuperate the futures hoped for and dreamed up by a vast array of islanders and outlanders—from Indigenous federalists to Lutheran improvers to Cantonese small business owners—making these histories of the future visible. In so doing, the collection intervenes in debates about globalization in the Pacific—and how the region is acted on by outside forces—and postcolonial debates that emphasize the agency and resistance of Pacific peoples in the context of centuries of colonial endeavor. With a view to the effects of the “slow violence” of climate change, the volume also challenges scholars to think about the conditions of possibility for future-thinking at all in the midst of a global crisis that promises cataclysmic effects for the region. Pacific Futures highlights futures conceived in the context of a modernity coproduced by diverse Pacific peoples, taking resistance to categorization as a starting point rather than a conclusion. With its hospitable approach to thinking about history making and future thinking, one that is open to a wide range of methodological, epistemological, and political interests and commitments, the volume will encourage the writing of new histories of the Pacific and new ways of talking about history in this field, the region, and beyond.

Book Changing Coastlines

    Book Details:
  • Author : National Library of Australia
  • Publisher : National Library Australia
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 064210610X
  • Pages : 34 pages

Download or read book Changing Coastlines written by National Library of Australia and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1993 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing Coastlines examines Australia’s cartographic history. The publication reminds us of the importance of maps, not only as locators of places but also for what they tell us today about the perceptions of Australia in the minds of those who created and used them.