Stallard recounts the search for an imagined geography, a place that existed in the minds of human being because of and regardless of physical reality: the great southern continent. He covers what exists beyond, the world as palimpsest, the cartographers' southern continent, Terra Australis takes shape, Mercator's southern continent and theory of equipoisure, seeking Terra Australis, the Dutch discovery, Van Dieman's Lands, Terra Australis adrift, an icy end, mistaking Australia for Terra Australis, and the power of imaginative geography. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation 2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
