Ideas of a Southern Continent -- Classical geographers -- Renaissance and later -- Travellers and story-tellers -- Marco Polo -- Mandeville -- Dutch exploration and the VOC fleets -- Duyfken -- Tasman -- Pelsaert -- Spanish and Portuguese discovery -- Varthema -- Quirós and Mendaña -- The English adventurers make landfall -- Drake -- Dampier
Summary
This catalogue of books and maps tells the story of a New World, the result of a push to the east and the south. The early modern voyages have a fascinating pre-history which stretches back to the classical geographers
Notes
"... catalogue of early books and maps relating to the "Great South Land", beginning with the speculations of early geographers and continuing to the voyages of discovery in the seventeenth century" - Intro
