The Explorers edited and introduced by Tim Flannery

Tim Flannery (editor)

ISBN 10: 1875847723 / ISBN 13: 9781875847723

Published by Text Publishing Company, Melbourne VIC, 2013

About this Item

Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Creasing to front and back covers. Previous owner has stamped inside page. The Explorers tells an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest, of a moving frontier between European invaders and the Aboriginal custodians of the continent.This compelling anthology documents almost four centuries of exploration and takes us into a world of danger, compassion and humour. Many of the stories beggar belief. Maori chief Te Pahi saves the lives of condemned thieves in Sydney in 1805 - Hume and Hovell argue over their frying pan - John Ainsworth Horrocks is shot by his camel. Brilliantly edited and introduced by Tim Flannery,The Explorers draws on the most remarkable body of non-fiction writing ever produced in Australia.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Explorers edited and introduced by Tim Flannery
• Publisher: Text Publishing Company, Melbourne VIC
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1875847723
• ISBN 13: 9781875847723
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dimensions: 20W x 13H x 3D centimeters 20 centimeters width by 13 centimeters height by 3 centimeters depth
• Weight: 0.35 kilograms
• Seller catalogs:
  • Australian History
  • Biography & Memoir

About this title

Synopsis

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 that 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".

About the Author

Tim Flannery was born in Melbourne in 1956. He lives in Sydney, where he is Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Museum. In 1998 he was appointed Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University.