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

Flannery, Tim [Editor]

ISBN 10: 0802137199 / ISBN 13: 9780802137197

Verlag: Grove Press, 2000

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0802137199-3-32474457

Inhaltsangabe:

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."

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and ...
Verlag: Grove Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Good