Research Catalog

Title

To the ends of the earth and back again / Maxwell C. Hill.

Author

Hill, Maxwell C. (Maxwell Charles), 1947-

Publication

[Taupiri, N.Z.] : Ancient History Publications, c2015.

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Description

xvi, 356 p. : col. ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

For some 24 years in the 1500s map makers included Australia on their world maps - long before Australia was actually 'discovered' by Europeans, according to conventional history. This book presents evidence that the ancient Greeks landed in the Americas and circumnavigated the world more than 1300 years before the voyage of Magellan. This great expedition was recorded by the Greeks and the resultant maps and scrolls stored in the Great Library of Alexandria. There they remained until 340-345AD when Roman troops removed selected items and took them back to Italy. History sadly records that in 390AD the then Bishop of Alexandria ordered the library's entire contents, some 700,000 scrolls, maps and other artefacts, burnt or smashed. This research traces what really happened in those turbulent times and explains how some of these records were not destroyed but remained intact for map makers to rediscover more than one thousand years later. Importantly, it explores how the magnificent works of ancient master map maker Claudius Ptolemy were found and redrawn in the 1300s. Strangely, though the original ancient maps were found, it is clear that those who drew new maps from them did not fully understand the extent of what the ancient Greek voyagers had achieved.

Subject

• Discoveries in geography > History
• Voyages around the world
• Explorers > Greeks
• Māori (New Zealand people) > History
• Māori (New Zealand people) > Antiquities
• Te Ao Tāwhito
• Hekenga
• Whaipara tangata
• Kōrero nehe
• New Zealand > Discovery and exploration
• New Zealand > History

Note

• First edition published 2012.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-347) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

To the ends of the earth -- Pre-Maori art & artefacts -- Different people at different times -- Charts, maps and navigational aids -- Tribal people -- Ancient European voyages -- Ancient European charts -- Other research -- chapters by: Ross Holmes ; Martin Doutre ; The Late Bric Park ; The Quine Family ; B. Jolly, photos -- M. Hill, text ; Charlie Percy ; Tony Nicholls ; Hori Kupenga Manuka Manuka ; John Aldworth ; Maxwell C. Hill -- Summary.

ISBN

• 9780473312480 (pbk.)
• 0473312484 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 918565328
• SCSB-12828819

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library