Images of the Antipodes in the eighteenth century : : a study in stereotyping / / David Fausett.
How did Europeans view the unknown region at their antipodes in early times, before the explorations of Captain Cook and others made it well known? Throughout the ages it has evoked fantastic images which affected the arts and sciences, and the evolution of the novel in the century prior to the majo...
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