The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802137199 ISBN 13: 9780802137197

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000

Synopsis

A lively collection of extraordinary stories of adventure and discovery, The Explorers tells the epic saga of the conquest and settlement of Australia. Editor Tim Flannery selects sixty-seven accounts that convey the sense of wonder and discovery, along with the human dimensions of struggle and deprivation, which occurred in the exploration of the last continent to be fully mapped by Europeans. Beginning with the story of Dutch captain Willem Janz's 1606 expedition at Cape York -- the bloody outcome of which would sadly foreshadow future relations between colonists and Aboriginal peoples -- and running through Robyn Davidson's 1977 camelback ride through the desolate Outback deserts, The Explorers bristles with the enterprise that Flannery explains as "heroic, for nowhere else did explorers face such an obdurate country."

About this title

Book Description

The explorers of Australia tell an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest, of a moving frontier between European invaders and the Aborigines who had been living on this continent for thousands of years.

About the Author

Tim Flannery was born in Melbourne in 1956. He lives in Sydney, where he is Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Museum. In 1998 he was appointed Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802137199
• ISBN 13: 9780802137197
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Flannery Tim