TY - BOOK ID - 77894250 TI - The last blank spaces PY - 2013 SN - 0674075013 0674074971 9780674074972 9780674048478 0674048474 9780674503861 0674503864 9780674075016 PB - Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press DB - UniCat KW - Explorers KW - British KW - British people KW - Britishers KW - Britons (British) KW - Brits KW - Ethnology KW - Discoverers KW - Navigators KW - Voyagers KW - Adventure and adventurers KW - Heroes KW - Discoveries in geography KW - History. KW - Africa KW - Australia KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Ahitereiria KW - Aostralia KW - Ástralía KW - ʻAukekulelia KW - Austraalia KW - Austraalia Ühendus KW - Australian Government KW - Australie KW - Australien KW - Australiese Gemenebes KW - Aŭstralii︠a︡ KW - Australija KW - Austrālijas Savienība KW - Australijos Sandrauga KW - Aŭstralio KW - Australské společenství KW - Ausztrál Államszövetség KW - Ausztrália KW - Avstralii︠a︡ KW - Avstraliĭski sŭi︠u︡z KW - Avstraliĭskiĭ Soi︠u︡z KW - Avstraliĭskii︠a︡t sŭi︠u︡z KW - Avstralija KW - Awstralia KW - Awstralja KW - Awstralya KW - Aystralia KW - Commonwealth of Australia KW - Cymanwlad Awstralia KW - Državna zaednica Avstralija KW - Government of Australia KW - Ḳehiliyat Osṭralyah KW - Koinopoliteia tēs Aystralias KW - Komanwel Australia KW - Komonveltot na Avstralija KW - Komonwelt sa Awstralya KW - Komunaĵo de Aŭstralio KW - Komunejo de Aŭstralio KW - Kūmunwālth al-Usturālī KW - Mancomunidad de Australia KW - Mancomunitat d'Austràlia KW - Negara Persemakmuran Australia KW - New Holland KW - Nova Hollandia KW - Osṭralyah KW - Ōsutoraria KW - Persemakmuran Australia KW - Samveldið Ástralía KW - Usṭralyah KW - Usturāliyā KW - Whakaminenga o Ahitereiria KW - Κοινοπολιτεία της Αυστραλίας KW - Αυστραλία KW - Аўстралія KW - Австралия KW - Австралија KW - Австралийски съюз KW - Австралийският съюз KW - Австралийский Союз KW - Комонвелтот на Австралија KW - Државна заедница Австралија KW - אוסטרליה KW - קהיליית אוסטרליה KW - أستراليا KW - كومنولث الأسترالي KW - オーストラリア KW - Discovery and exploration KW - British. KW - History of the United Kingdom and Ireland KW - History of Africa KW - History of Oceania with Australia KW - expeditions [journeys] KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - ontdekkingsreizen UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77894250 AB - For a British Empire that stretched across much of the globe at the start of the nineteenth century, the interiors of Africa and Australia remained intriguing mysteries. The challenge of opening these continents to imperial influence fell to a proto-professional coterie of determined explorers. They sought knowledge, adventure, and fame, but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. The Last Blank Spaces follows the arc of these explorations, from idea to practice, from intention to outcome, from myth to reality. Those who conducted the hundreds of expeditions that probed Africa and Australia in the nineteenth century adopted a mode of scientific investigation that had been developed by previous generations of seaborne explorers. They likened the two continents to oceans, empty spaces that could be made truly knowable only by mapping, measuring, observing, and preserving. They found, however, that their survival and success depended less on this system of universal knowledge than it did on the local knowledge possessed by native peoples. While explorers sought to advance the interests of Britain and its emigrant communities, Dane Kennedy discovers a more complex outcome: expeditions that failed ignominiously, explorers whose loyalties proved ambivalent or divided, and, above all, local states and peoples who diverted expeditions to serve their own purposes. The collisions, and occasional convergences, between British and indigenous values, interests, and modes of knowing the world are brought to the fore in this fresh and engaging study. ER -