Title Australian navigators : picking up shells and catching butterflies in an age of revolution / Robert Tiley

Published East Roseville, N.S.W. : Kangaroo Press, an imprint of Simon and Schuster Australia, 2002

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Description xi, 243 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : maps ; 24 cm regular print Summary Why, in the last decades of the 1700s, did sailors from the warring nations of Britain and France come to this far-flung corner of the world in an attempt to chart coastlines in the Pacific, including Australia? This is an account of the race to find and chart these coastlines Analysis Sea navigation History, Pre-1801 History, 1801-1900 Biography Discovery and exploration Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 237-240 Subject Explorers -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Explorers -- Australia. SUBJECT Australia -- History -- To 1788. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88000618 Australia -- History -- 1788-1851. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009592 Australia -- Discovery and exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114308 Genre/Form History. ISBN 0731811186 :

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