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dc.contributor.authorSeal, Graham
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-06T06:14:49Z
dc.date.available2018-02-06T06:14:49Z
dc.date.created2018-02-06T05:49:49Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationSeal, G. 2016. The savage shore: Extraordinary stories of survival and tragedy from the early voyages of discovery.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/63043
dc.description.abstract

© 2016 Graham Seal. All rights reserved. For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook and the so-called First Fleet in 1788, intrepid seafaring explorers had been searching, with varied results, for the fabled “Great Southland.” In this enthralling history of early discovery, Graham Seal offers breathtaking tales of shipwrecks, perilous landings, and Aboriginal encounters with the more than three hundred Europeans who washed up on these distant shores long before the land was claimed by Cook for England. The author relates dramatic, previously untold legends of survival gleaned from the centuries of Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Indonesian voyages to Australia, and debunks commonly held misconceptions about the earliest European settlements: ships of the Dutch East Indies Company were already active in the region by the early seventeenth century, and the Dutch, rather than the English, were probably the first European settlers on the continent.

dc.titleThe savage shore: Extraordinary stories of survival and tragedy from the early voyages of discovery
dc.typeBook
dcterms.source.startPage1
dcterms.source.endPage298
dcterms.source.isbn9780300220414
curtin.departmentHumanities Research and Graduate Studies
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