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

ISBN 10: 0802137199 / ISBN 13: 9780802137197

Published by Grove Press, 2000

Seller Inventory # mon0000037039

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."

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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and ...
Publisher: Grove Press
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good