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The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia

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Description for The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia Paperback. The challenge of opening Africa and Australia to British imperial influence fell to a coterie of proto-professional explorers who sought knowledge, adventure, and fame but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. Kennedy follows the arc of these explorations, from idea to practice, intention to outcome, myth to reality. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBJM; HBTP; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 528.

For a British Empire that stretched across much of the globe at the start of the nineteenth century, the interiors of Africa and Australia remained intriguing mysteries. The challenge of opening these continents to imperial influence fell to a proto-professional coterie of determined explorers. They sought knowledge, adventure, and fame, but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. The Last Blank Spaces follows the arc of these explorations, from idea to practice, from intention to outcome, from myth to reality.

Those who conducted the hundreds of expeditions that probed Africa and Australia in the nineteenth century adopted a mode of ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674503861
SKU
V9780674503861
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About Professor Dane Kennedy
Dane Kennedy is Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University.

Reviews for The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia
Scholars and biographers have tirelessly eulogized, analyzed and demystified individual explorers, but the field has long lacked a synthesizing study of overland exploration… As with all grand comparative works, subsequent scholars will no doubt spend decades picking critical holes in Kennedy’s convincingly systematic survey. But this will only confirm the breadth and originality of The Last Blank Spaces, which successfully ... Read more

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