Zone of the Marvellous: In Search of the Antipodes

‘Compressing 4000 years of history into 250 pages is a formidable task but maverick essayist Martin Edmond is up to the challenge . . . A gifted storyteller with a wry wit, he packs the book with masterly miniature biographies of scallywags, adventurers, liars, lunatics, artists and dreamers.’ – Iain Sharp, Metro In the tradition of Dava Sobel and Longitude, award-winning writer Martin Edmond uses his extraordinary intellectual breadth and imaginative reach to elegantly and lucidly execute his most ambitious project to date - the history of 4,000 years of the Western imagination and the Antipodes, Great Southern Land, Zone of the Marvellous.

• | Author: Martin Edmond
• | Publisher: Auckland University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2009
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781869404475
• | ISBN-10: 1869404475