ISBN: 9780642975911 - the explorers (1 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Condition is near fine. Book boards front and back clean. Dust jacket is very good. Minimal shelf wear. Book block clean. Pages 160. First page has ex-owner name top right hand cornor Based on Bill Peach's television series for the ABC, The Explorers describes the journey of those men who gradually made Australia known to its settlers. There were many successful expeditions and there were failures and disasters, but the story of exploration is dramatic and full of interest. In the one volume Peach puts together a succinct and informative account of all Australia's notable explorers, men like Hume and Hovell, Leichardt, Giles, Burke and Will, Oxley, Mitchell, Sturat, Eyre, The Forest Brothers, the Gregory brothers, Blaxland, Lawson, Wentworth, Kennedy, and Sturat. This book is well Illustrated and has an index for easy reading.…