The Last Blank Spaces : Exploring Africa and Australia / Dane Kennedy.
Kennedy, Dane, author.
2013
DT3 .K36 2013eb
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Title The Last Blank Spaces : Exploring Africa and Australia / Dane Kennedy.
Author Kennedy, Dane, author.
ISBN 9780674074972
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674074972
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 15 halftones, 2 maps, 1 table
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674074972 doi
Call Number DT3 .K36 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 916.0089/21
Summary 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 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. The collisions, and occasional convergences, between British and indigenous values, interests, and modes of knowing the world are brought to the fore in this fresh and engaging study.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Maps and Illustrations
Chapter 1. Continents
Chapter 2. Sciences
Chapter 3. Professionals
Chapter 4. Gateways
Chapter 5. Logistics
Chapter 6. Intermediaries
Chapter 7. Encounters
Chapter 8. Celebrities
Epilogue
Comparative Timeline of African and Australian Expeditions
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

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