THE FURTHEST SHORE.Images From Terra Australis From The Middle Ages to Captain Cook.
Cambridge, Melbourne & New York, Published by Cambridge Univesity Press, 1995. First Edition.4to.pp.xii + 180, with many colour and black & white plates and maps. Original green cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. A Very Good copy. Item #194818
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' showing how contemporary art recorded the transformation from an imagined world to a properly mapped and defined country.
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