The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier
Editat de Tim Flanneryen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2000
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."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780802137197
ISBN-10: 0802137199
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:AMERICAN.
Editura: Grove Atlantic
ISBN-10: 0802137199
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:AMERICAN.
Editura: Grove Atlantic
Descriere
In this lively collection of stories of adventure and discovery, "The Explorers" tells the epic saga of the conquest and settlement of Australia. Flannery presents 67 accounts that convey the sense of wonder along with the dimensions of struggle.