The First Discovery Of Australia And New Guinea
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Long before the age of Cook and the well-documented voyages of British exploration, the southern continent held its place in the imagination of Portuguese and Spanish navigators who dared to chart the unknown — and George Collingridge's The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea makes the bold, meticulously researched case that these earlier mariners reached Australian shores far sooner than history's mainstream narrative has acknowledged. Drawing on sixteenth-century cartographic evidence, ancient maps, and the fragmentary records of Iberian seamanship, Collingridge argues that the discovery of Australia was not an English achievement but a Portuguese and Spanish one, predating the celebrated voyages by over a century. Collingridge, himself an artist and historian of formidable breadth, presents his argument with the precision of a scholar and the passion of an advocate, weaving together cartographic analysis, linguistic evidence, and historical record to construct an irresistible case. A work of enduring significance in the historiography of the Pacific and the Age of Discovery, it challenges readers to reconsider the very foundations of colonial history — and to ask who truly first set eyes upon the great southern land.
Author: George Collingridge
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Long before the age of Cook and the well-documented voyages of British exploration, the southern continent held its place in the imagination of Portuguese and Spanish navigators who dared to chart the unknown — and George Collingridge's The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea makes the bold, meticulously researched case that these earlier mariners reached Australian shores far sooner than history's mainstream narrative has acknowledged. Drawing on sixteenth-century cartographic evidence, ancient maps, and the fragmentary records of Iberian seamanship, Collingridge argues that the discovery of Australia was not an English achievement but a Portuguese and Spanish one, predating the celebrated voyages by over a century. Collingridge, himself an artist and historian of formidable breadth, presents his argument with the precision of a scholar and the passion of an advocate, weaving together cartographic analysis, linguistic evidence, and historical record to construct an irresistible case. A work of enduring significance in the historiography of the Pacific and the Age of Discovery, it challenges readers to reconsider the very foundations of colonial history — and to ask who truly first set eyes upon the great southern land.