The Discovery Of Australia
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Long before the age of satellites and GPS, brave men charted the unknown world one perilous voyage at a time — and The Discovery of Australia by G. Arnold Wood stands as one of the most authoritative and detailed accounts of how an entire continent was revealed to the Western world. Written by a distinguished Oxford-educated historian and professor, this scholarly yet deeply engaging work chronicles the successive waves of European exploration that gradually uncovered Australia's vast coastlines and interior, from the earliest Portuguese and Dutch navigators to the celebrated voyages of Captain James Cook, whose portrait graces the book's illustrated pages. Wood's narrative is meticulous in its sourcing and sweeping in its scope, presenting the discovery of Australia not as a single triumphant moment but as a centuries-long accumulation of courage, cartographic error, colonial ambition, and remarkable seamanship. His academic rigour — shaped by his training at Manchester and Oxford — lends the work an authoritative weight, while his fluid prose ensures it remains accessible to the general reader. A landmark in Australian historical scholarship, this 1922 edition invites readers to reimagine a world in which an entire continent could still be, quite literally, off the map.
Author: G. Arnold Wood
Format: Hardback
Published: 1922, Macmillan and Co., Limited
Genre: Australian history
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Long before the age of satellites and GPS, brave men charted the unknown world one perilous voyage at a time — and The Discovery of Australia by G. Arnold Wood stands as one of the most authoritative and detailed accounts of how an entire continent was revealed to the Western world. Written by a distinguished Oxford-educated historian and professor, this scholarly yet deeply engaging work chronicles the successive waves of European exploration that gradually uncovered Australia's vast coastlines and interior, from the earliest Portuguese and Dutch navigators to the celebrated voyages of Captain James Cook, whose portrait graces the book's illustrated pages. Wood's narrative is meticulous in its sourcing and sweeping in its scope, presenting the discovery of Australia not as a single triumphant moment but as a centuries-long accumulation of courage, cartographic error, colonial ambition, and remarkable seamanship. His academic rigour — shaped by his training at Manchester and Oxford — lends the work an authoritative weight, while his fluid prose ensures it remains accessible to the general reader. A landmark in Australian historical scholarship, this 1922 edition invites readers to reimagine a world in which an entire continent could still be, quite literally, off the map.