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Writing To the Fair Land

Posted on 1st October, 2024

A Continent of Great Extent: Writing To the Fair Land, a short (10 minute) presentation about the history behind To The Fair Land, is now available on Substack.

To The Fair Land is an eighteenth century thriller about a young man who risks everything in his search for a missing author, a map, and a discovery that could change the face of the known world. It is set at a time when many explorers and geographers believed in the existence of a massive continent in the southern hemisphere – the Great Southern Continent – on no firmer evidence than that a Greek philosopher had made it up. In this presentation, I explore some of the history behind the fiction, as well as some of the myths.

You can view the presentation and read the transcript of A Continent of Great Extent: Writing To the Fair Land at This Writing Life With Lucienne Boyce on Substack.

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Picture Credit:-

The Resolution, Captain Cook’s ship, in the Antarctic circle: Engraving by B T Pouncy after W Hodges, 1 February 1777, The Wellcome Collection, Public Domain