The Known Southern Land

by Gabriel De Foigny

In 1676, a century before the British colonized Australia, a defrocked French monk named Gabriel de Foigny published a novel imagining what the land was like. The work is told through the eyes of doomed, shipwrecked traveler Nicolas Sadeur, whose life is a series of watery disasters. Sadeur's Australia (the Southern Land) is the polar opposite of Europe and, at first glance at least, a surreal utopia and respite for the hapless Sadeur. The land's...

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 1943679193
• ISBN13: 9781943679195
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Spurl Editions
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.5" x 4.5" x 0.4"