Encyclopedia of Exploration 1850–1940: Continental exploration
Hordern House, $295 hb, 1047 pp
Australia in Maps: Great maps in Australia’s history from the National Library’s collection
NLA, $59.95 hb, 148 pp
Discovering exploration
The concluding volume to Raymond Howgego’s epic Encyclopedia of Exploration completes a remarkable undertaking by a small publisher. Hordern House, best known as one of Australia’s leading antiquarian booksellers, has a record of producing high-quality publications, and Howgego’s Encyclopedia – now totalling more than 3,500 pages – is by any standards a great reference work. Volume 1 (published in 2003) covers the whole of human history up to 1800CE; Volume 2 (2004), 1800–50; and Volumes 3 and 4 (subtitled The Oceans, Islands and Polar Regions and Continental Exploration, respectively), 1850–1940.
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