001479225 000__ 05510nam\a22011055i\4500 001479225 001__ 1479225 001479225 003__ DE-B1597 001479225 005__ 20231102082820.0 001479225 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479225 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479225 008__ 190708s2013\\\\mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479225 020__ $$a9780674074972 001479225 0247_ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674074972$$2doi 001479225 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)209843 001479225 035__ $$a(OCoLC)828869731 001479225 035__ $$a(OCoLC)979953954 001479225 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479225 0410_ $$aeng 001479225 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001479225 050_4 $$aDT3$$b.K36 2013eb 001479225 072_7 $$aHIS051000$$2bisacsh 001479225 08204 $$a916.0089/21$$223 001479225 1001_ $$aKennedy, Dane,$$eauthor. 001479225 24514 $$aThe Last Blank Spaces :$$bExploring Africa and Australia /$$cDane Kennedy. 001479225 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c[2013] 001479225 264_4 $$c©2013 001479225 300__ $$a1 online resource :$$b15 halftones, 2 maps, 1 table 001479225 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479225 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479225 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479225 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479225 50500 $$tFrontmatter --$$tContents --$$tMaps and Illustrations --$$tChapter 1. Continents --$$tChapter 2. Sciences --$$tChapter 3. Professionals --$$tChapter 4. Gateways --$$tChapter 5. Logistics --$$tChapter 6. Intermediaries --$$tChapter 7. Encounters --$$tChapter 8. Celebrities --$$tEpilogue --$$tComparative Timeline of African and Australian Expeditions --$$tNotes --$$tBibliography --$$tAcknowledgments --$$tIndex 001479225 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479225 520__ $$aFor 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 scientific investigation that had been developed by previous generations of seaborne explorers. They likened the two continents to oceans, empty spaces that could be made truly knowable only by mapping, measuring, observing, and preserving. They found, however, that their survival and success depended less on this system of universal knowledge than it did on the local knowledge possessed by native peoples. While explorers sought to advance the interests of Britain and its emigrant communities, Dane Kennedy discovers a more complex outcome: expeditions that failed ignominiously, explorers whose loyalties proved ambivalent or divided, and, above all, local states and peoples who diverted expeditions to serve their own purposes. 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