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".
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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".
Imprint | Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | September 2000 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | September 2000 |
Editors | Tim Flannery |
Dimensions | 228 x 151 x 27mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 400 |
Edition | 1st American ed |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8021-3719-7 |
Barcode | 9780802137197 |
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LSN | 0-8021-3719-9 |