Beyond Cook: Explorers of Australia and the Pacific
About This Book
1 Medieval European conceptions of the world When Europeans set out across the Atlantic they were equipped with ideas of what they would find, and those ideas were largely medieval. The medieval period in Europe lasted roughly 1000 years, beginning with the disintegration of the western Roman Empire, and ending as European exploration of the wider world gathered pace. While medieval Europe spanned a long period of time, a large geographic area, and a range of cultures, it was unified by a Christ
| Category | humanities |
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| Subject | Australasian and Pacific history, History of ideas, Indigenous peoples, Geographical discovery and exploration |
| Year | 2023 |
| Authors | |
| Chapters | 13 |
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| Institution | James Cook University |
| License | Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Chapters
- 1 Medieval European conceptions of the world
- 4 Europeans explore (and imagine) the Pacific’s islands
- 5 Cook, and his place in the Australian imagination
- 6 Science, and the Pacific’s role in European thought
- 7 Europeans begin to explore the Australian continent
- 10 Non-British European expeditions to the Australian continent
- 11 Pasifika explorers
- 12 Women explorers
- 13 Animal explorers
- 14 Wooden explorers
- 15 The Pacific’s first navigators
- 16 Rediscovering the discovery of a sea of islands
- 18 Conclusion