Cover art for The Last Blank Spaces
Published
Harvard University Press, March 2015
ISBN
9780674503861
Format
Softcover, 368 pages

The Last Blank Spaces by

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The challenge of opening Africa and Australia to British imperial influence fell to a coterie of proto-professional explorers who sought knowledge, adventure, and fame but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. Kennedy follows the arc of these explorations, from idea to practice, intention to outcome, myth to reality.

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