The Furthest Shore
Images of Terra Australis from the Middle Ages to Captain Cook
- Publisher's listprice GBP 67.99
-
34 409 Ft (32 771 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 20% (cc. 6 882 Ft off)
- Discounted price 27 528 Ft (26 217 Ft + 5% VAT)
Subcribe now and take benefit of a favourable price.
Subscribe
34 409 Ft
Availability
Estimated delivery time: In stock at the publisher, but not at Prospero's office. Delivery time approx. 3-5 weeks.
Not in stock at Prospero.
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 30 June 1995
- ISBN 9780521392686
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 279x216x13 mm
- Weight 780 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 81 b/w illus. 15 colour illus. 0
Categories
Short description:
This book traces the history of pictorial imagery associated with Terra Australis, showing the link between art and exploration.
MoreLong description:
The unknown and mysterious Great Southland, or Terra Australis, captured the European imagination for centuries before it became a documented fact. This book traces the history of pictorial imagery associated with the 'Fifth Continent'. It discusses and presents imagery from all parts of the southern continent: Java, Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, the South Pacific Islands and Tierra del Fuego as it evolved up to the Enlightenment. Many European explorers had a passionate interest in depicting the plants, animals and native inhabitants of the southern world. The images associated with the search for the southern continent - paintings, handcolored maps, drawings, tapestries and artefacts - are discussed in the context of the link between art and exploration. Beautifully illustrated with Portuguese, Spanish, French, Dutch and English images, this book is an exciting visual account of the construction of Terra Australis in the European imagination and as scientific fact.
"The Furthest Shore is a book I am glad to have, especially for its hard to come by illustrations and the excellent way in which Eisler shows different versions of sketches and drawings originally done on site and then copied, like de Bry's engravings of John White's drawings of Native Americans." Lydia Wevers, Utopian Studies
Table of Contents:
List of illustrations; Introduction; Part I. The Invention of a Southern Continent: 1. Terra Australis in antiquity and the Middle Ages; 2. Terra Australis in the early Renaissance; 3. Java la Grande and Magellanica; 4. Spanish vision of the Austral world: Meda&&&241;a, Quir&&&243;s, Torres; 5. Exotica in sixteenth century Spain; 6. Art, science and exploration in Elizabethan England; Part II. The Southern World in the Age of Dutch Expansion (1606-1756): 7. The Dutch image of the Southland; 8. Dutch Australian expeditions: 1606-36; 9. Antony van Diemen and the Great Southland (1636-45); 10. Art and the Dutch trading companies; 11. The Great Southland and the republic of letters: Nicolaas Witsen (1641-1717) and his Kunstkammer; 12. Epilogue; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography.
More
