Paradise Possessed

- Foreword (381KB)
- Introduction (806KB)
- A Genius for Collection (793KB)
- A Memoir (789KB)
- Self-Made (1.19MB)
- Memories of Morocco (749KB)
- The collection (929KB)
- An Unending Conversation (741KB)
- Travelling Strange Seas (818KB)
- Map Collection (1.07MB)
- Discovering Voyages (810KB)
- Mr. Nan Kivell’s Scrimshaw (880KB)
- Notes on Contributors (204KB)
- Exhibition Checklist (815KB)
- Entire Publication (10.49MB)
Publication Date: 1998
This collection of essays provides a series of fascinating insights into the National Library of Australia's extraordinary Rex Nan Kivell Collection. This is one of the most remarkable and valuable collections of material held by a library anywhere in the world; a collection which documents European imaginings of the fabled Antipodes, and real European journeys in search of the fabulous.
