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Discovery: The Quest for the Great South Land
Discovery The Quest for the Great South Land Author:Miriam Estensen Six centuries before the birth of Christ, people began to imagine an immense land at the bottom of the world, a land of marvels, of enormous wealth and mystery. The story begins among Greek philosophers on the shores of the Mediterranean. It ends two millennia later in the vast Southern Ocean. At the heart of Discovery is the power of a myth and... more » the adventures and sacrifices of those who pursued it, for this is the story of how an imagined place was made real, how the speculations of visionaries became Terra Incognita and then Australia.« less