The savage shore : extraordinary stories of survival and tragedy from the early voyages of discovery
Seal, Graham, 1950-2016
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For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook in 1788, intrepid seafaring explorers had been searching, with varied results, for the fabled 'Great Southland'. In this enthralling history of early discovery, Graham Seal offers breathtaking tales of shipwrecks, perilous landings, and Aboriginal encounters with the more than 300 Europeans who washed up on those distant shores long before the land was claimed by Cook for England. Relating dramatic, previously untold legends of survival gleaned from the centuries of Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Indonesian voyages to Australia, he debunks commonly held misconceptions about the earliest European settlements, arguing that the Dutch, rather than the English, were probably the first European settlers on the continent.
Main title:
Author:
Seal, Graham, 1950-, author
Imprint:
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]©2016
Collation:
xxi, 298 pages : map (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Originally published: Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2015.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780300220414 (hbk)
Dewey class:
910.45
Language:
English
BRN:
347611