The Cartographic Eye - Simon Ryan

The Cartographic Eye

How Explorers Saw Australia

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
248 Seiten
1996
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-57112-8 (ISBN)
93,50 inkl. MwSt
This book is an investigation of the presumptions and politics of Australian explorers' texts that shows that they are not the unadorned observations they would have us believe. It scrutinises the scientific and literary methodology of exploration.
This book is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. It is an innovative investigation of the presumptions, aesthetics, and politics of Australian explorers' texts that looks at the journals of John Oxley, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Sturt, and Ludwig Leichhardt and shows that they are not the simple, unadorned observations the authors would have us believe, but, rather, complex networks of tropes. The book argues that contacts with Aborigines and the 'virgin' land are occasions of discursive contest, and that, however much explorers construct themselves as monarchs of all they survey, this monarchy is not absolute. This book scrutinises and undermines the scientific and literary methodology of exploration.

Introduction; 1. Exploring culture: the formation and fragmentation of the explorer; 2. Picturesque visions: controlling the seen; 3. Maps and their cultural constructedness; 4. Seeing the Aborigines put in their place; 5. The bosom of unknown lands; Conclusion.

Zusatzinfo 24 Halftones, unspecified
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 500 g
Themenwelt Reiseführer Australien / Neuseeland / Ozeanien Australien
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-521-57112-X / 052157112X
ISBN-13 978-0-521-57112-8 / 9780521571128
Zustand Neuware
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