The Cartographic Eye : How Explorers Saw Australia
by
Simon Ryan
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521577918
ISBN-13
9780521577915
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 13th, 1996
Print length
248 Pages
Weight
368 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 23.00 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
AustraliaAustralasian & Pacific historyModern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900Colonialism & imperialismNational liberation & independence, post-colonialismCultural studiesCultural studiesHistoryAustralasian and Pacific historyColonialism and imperialismNational liberation and independenceGeographical discovery & explorationGeographical discovery and explorationTravel & holidayTravel and holiday
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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.
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