The Mermaid tree : how a tiny unknown ship opened Australia"s north and west to development, dreams and disappointment.

Tiley, Robert

ISBN 10: 0733317014 / ISBN 13: 9780733317019

Published by ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2006

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AN ILLUMINATING HISTORICAL INSIGHT INTO A NEGLECTED PERIOD OF AUSTRALIAN HISTORY, WHICH BEGAN WITH THE ANGLO-FRENCH RACE TO CHART AUSTRALIA'S COASTLINE. IT WAS THIS COMPETITION WHICH PAVED THE WAY TO OPEN TO DEVELOPMENT AUSTRALIA'S VAST NORTH AND WEST.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Mermaid tree : how a tiny unknown ship opened Australia"s north and west to development, dreams and disappointment.
• Publisher: ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0733317014
• ISBN 13: 9780733317019
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Australiana

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Synopsis

For generations of Australians, the great navigators of the golden age of Antipodean maritime exploration - Cook, Bligh, la Perouse, Bougainville and Flinders - have long been household names. the significance of their discoveries and their contribution to the settlement and development of our island continent is widely appreciated and can hardly be overestimated. However, about their successors - the hydrographers and explorers of the period 1815-1850 - much less is generally known. In this meticulously researched history, Robert tiley seeks to fill some of the gaps in the national consciousness by writing of the trials, accomplishments and sheer intrepidity of Frenchmen such as Freycinet, d'Urville and Duperrey; of Britons such as Phillip Parker King, Stokes, Blackwood, Owen Stanley and Wickham, and their valuable work in mapping the eastern, northern and western coastlines of the enormous Australian land mass.