{"product_id":"the-southern-frontier-by-rohan-howitt-9780522880519","title":"The Southern Frontier","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAntarctica looms large in the Australian psyche – as a place of science, adventure, and peril. Our romantic entanglement with this unique environment is deep and enduring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Southern Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e traces Australia’s Antarctic obsession from its origins in the nineteenth century to the creation of the Australian Antarctic Territory and a permanent national Antarctic program in the 1930s and 1940s. It reconstructs Australian ideas, beliefs, and anxieties about the Antarctic and shows how Australians came to imagine their nation as having a natural right – perhaps even a destiny – to explore, exploit, and control the world to their south.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy examining how and why Australia relentlessly pursued the acquisition of its Antarctic Territory, Rohan Howitt recovers a forgotten way of thinking about this region: as one frontier of an Australian empire stretching from the equator to the South Pole.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt a time when the Australian Government is ramping up its investment in Antarctica and geopolitical tensions are on the rise, \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e provides the historical explanation for how Australians came to see the world to their south as a natural extension of the nation’s territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46656965411052,"sku":"9780522880519","price":43.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780522880519.jpg?v=1752482764","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-southern-frontier-by-rohan-howitt-9780522880519","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}