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

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9780802137197: The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier
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ISBN 10: 0802137199 ISBN 13: 9780802137197
Editorial: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000

Sinopsis

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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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.

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Editorial
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0802137199
ISBN 13 
9780802137197
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
400
Editor
Flannery Tim
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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