Zone of the marvellous
Subtitle: in search of the Antipodes
By: Martin Edmond.
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Auckland, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781869404475
Subjects: Literature -- History and criticism; Oceania -- In literature; Australasia -- In literature
Genres: In literature
Description: Australia and New Zealand were imagined for thousands of years before they became real. Travellers, writers, map-makers and charlatans have dreamt of an other world on the opposite side of the Northern Hemisphere. The author reveals the allure of an antipodal world from the earliest Western writing to modern artists and writers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.