Author: Officer
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Spine title: Voyage to Botany Bay No 186 of a limited edition of 350 copies Facsimile edition First published, London: Printed for C Forster, 1789.

Author: Eric Dorfman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136481656
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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The topic of intangible natural heritage is new, recently emerging as an important subject of inquiry. It describes the untouchable elements of the environment that combine to create natural objects, and help define our relationship to them. These elements can be sensory, like auditory landscapes, or processes like natural selection. As a concept, intangible natural heritage is growing in prominence, as museums are increasingly charged safeguarding and interpreting the milieux from which their objects originate. This book is a significant advance on the subject of intangible natural heritage; no book on the topic has yet been written and current scholarship is confined to a few isolated papers. As such, there exists a wide variety of perspectives on the topic. Intangible Natural Heritage presents a spectrum of opinion, making the first attempt at a unifying concept on which future work can be based. Authors from Europe, Asia, Australasia, Britain, and North America, address topics on scales from minute insects to sweeping landscapes. The common thread in these explorations is the importance of human relationships with nature that is passed down from generation to generation. In a world that is becoming increasingly fragile, recognizing and fostering these relationships has never been more vital.

Author: Andrew N. Porter
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1088

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Britain's overseas history has never been well supplied with comprehensive bibliographical aids, and, despite extensive public interest in the subject, the position has steadily worsened. Following the recent Oxford History of the British Empire, this volume is therefore designed to provide a general source of reference and bibliographical guidance, at once wide-ranging, up-to-date, and accessible.

Author: Alfred Hiatt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317139453
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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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.

Author: Temple Scott
Publisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 618

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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 618

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Author: Louis Becke
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Author: Francois Peron
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349

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"A Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Hemisphere" is a historical account of the Baudin expedition to the coast of Australia. The voyage on two ships included about 24 scientists and researchers on board, an unprecedented number for those times. The journey was famous for its numerous discoveries. "A Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Hemisphere" by naturalist Francois Peron was one of several reports on the expedition. This book is most renowned for the Freycinet Map of 1811, the first published map showing the complete outline of Australia.