Explorers of Australia
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Stories of the men who mapped Australia
Heroes and hooligans, sailors, buccaneers and bushmen
Did you know.that as a boy Captain Cook ran away from home? that Ludwig Leichhardt ate stewed cockatoo for Christmas dinner 1844? that Burke and Wills took rum for their camels? Find out.about Aboriginal songlines - maps as poetry how sailors mapped the Great South Land, bit by bit who solved the riddle of the rivers who won the race to cross the continent, risking death in the desert
These are the people behind the names on maps - men of amazing courage and endurance.
Author: John Nicholson
Format: Hardback, 40 pages, 215mm x 270mm
Published: 1996, Allen & Unwin, Australia
Genre: School Textbooks & Study Guides: Literature, Arts & Humanities
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Stories of the men who mapped Australia
Heroes and hooligans, sailors, buccaneers and bushmen
Did you know.that as a boy Captain Cook ran away from home? that Ludwig Leichhardt ate stewed cockatoo for Christmas dinner 1844? that Burke and Wills took rum for their camels? Find out.about Aboriginal songlines - maps as poetry how sailors mapped the Great South Land, bit by bit who solved the riddle of the rivers who won the race to cross the continent, risking death in the desert
These are the people behind the names on maps - men of amazing courage and endurance.
Explorers of Australia