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NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA
MAPPING OUR
WORLD: TERRA
INCOGNITA TO
AUSTRALIA
To coincide with the
National Library’s
exhibition Mapping Our
World: Terra Incognita to
Australia, this stunning
publication features
over 100 items from the
National Library and
from collections around the world. It features maps such as Fra
Mauro’s Map of the World (1448–1453), one of the most important
and famous maps of all time; Jean Rotz’s 1542 atlas, presented to
King Henry VIII; the tiny Psalter World Map, circa 1265; and Matthew
Flinders’ 1814 chart of Australia. Sumptuously illustrated with over
250 images, and with commentary on each of the maps featured,
the book includes sections on Ancient Conceptions of the World;
Medieval Religious Mapping; The Age of Discovery; The Dutch
Golden Age; and Europe and the South Pacific.
ISBN 978-0-642-27809-8 | 2013, pb, 270 x 300 mm, 288 pp
RRP $49.99
FLOCKS OF COLOUR
By Penny Olsen
What name could be a more apt
description of Australia than ‘The
Land of Parrots’, a name inspired
by late sixteenth-century maps
showing a southern region labelled
Psittacorum regio? This beautiful
book takes a close look at parrots in
Australia, from the first published
illustration of an Australian
parrot—a Rainbow Lorikeet collected live on Cook’s 1770
voyage—to William T. Cooper’s twentieth-century watercolour of
the elusive Night Parrot.
With introductory essays by ornithologist Penny Olsen, Flocks
of Colour covers two and a quarter centuries of discovery and
illustration of Australia’s avifauna. It features a rich portfolio of
images of all the Australian parrots, by various artists including
John Gould, Edward Lear, Neville W. Cayley and William T. Cooper,
selected from the collections of the National Library of Australia.
The foreword is by Joseph Forshaw, a world expert on the
parrot family.
ISBN 978-0-642-27806-7 | 2013, pb, 284 x 233 mm, 224 pp
RRP $39.99 | ISBN (ebook) 978-0-642-27815-9
ISBN (ePDF) 978-0-642-27816-6
LOOKING FOR CLANCY
By Robert Ingpen
In 1889, the revered Australian folk
poet A.B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson first
published his ballad, Clancy of
the Overflow. The verse achieved
immediate popularity and, with the
creation of his legendary character,
Clancy—a free-spirited stockman—
Paterson had summed up the
essence of the Australian outback.
Clancy attained folk hero status and continues to loom large in
the nation’s consciousness, encompassing many of the qualities of
what it means to be an Australian, and inspiring dreams of escape
to the bush, far away from the ‘dusty, dirty city’.
To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Banjo Paterson,
award-winning illustrator Robert Ingpen has journeyed into the
Australian outback, exploring the myth of Clancy through words
and illustrations, to find what it is that has made Clancy such an
enduring figure in Australian folklore.
ISBN 978-0-642-27812-8 | 2013, hb, 280 x 250 mm, 96 pp
RRP $34.99
THE ALLURE OF ORCHIDS
By Mark Clements
For many lovers of flowers, orchids
have a particular allure. Popular among
gardeners, florists and nature lovers,
orchids come in a huge array of shapes,
sizes, and colours, and have some of
the most intriguing names of any flower
species—Flying Duck, Beard, Fire and
Boat-lip Orchids, Doubletails, Fairy
Bells, Parson’s Bands and Greenhoods.
Some spend their whole lives underground while others grow
high in trees. And they are the tricksters of the flower world, many
mimicking the forms and smells of female insects and spiders to
sexually deceive their male counterparts into pollinating the flower.
The Allure of Orchids features an essay by orchid expert Mark
Clements, accompanied by a portfolio of illustrations, both
historical and modern, of this alluring species. In it you will find
works by around 25 artists, including the extraordinarily detailed
lithographs of early botanical illustrator Ferdinand Bauer, Ellis
Rowan’s beautiful paintings, the delicate watercolours of Margaret
Cochrane Scott, and many more.
ISBN 978-0-642-27807-4 | 2013, pb, 284 x 233 mm, 164 pp
RRP $34.99 | ISBN (ebook) 978-0-642-27817-3
ISBN (ePDF) 978-0-642-27818-0
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