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Captain Bligh's Second Chance: An Eyewitness Account of his Return to the South Seas
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Here is the intriguing and unfamiliar story of Captain Bligh's second voyage to the South Pacific, commenced in 1791, only one year after his return to England following the infamous mutiny on the 'Bounty'.
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Captain Cook: The Life, Death and Legacy of History's Greatest Explorer
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In three epic journeys, Captain Cook discovered more of the earth's surface than any other man. Yet James Cook himself has become shrouded in myth and his legacy has been ...
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Captain Cook: Voyager Between Worlds
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Captain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer. In his voyages he came across peoples with hugely different systems of thought and cultures. The author explores what happened when the two cultures met, and how each side interpreted the other ...
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Daniel Solander: Collected Correspondence 1753-1782
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Daniel Solander, the 18th century Swedish naturalist and traveller was a pioneer of the scientific study of natural history and one of the earliest collectors in New Holland.P For many ...
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Exploring the South Land: Tasmania Emerges from Terra Australis Incognita
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This book documents, by means of a sequence of historical maps, the emergence of knowledge over 400 years from the time that the navigators began probing south, until the current outline of Tasmania ...
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Nature's Argonaut: Daniel Solander 1733-1782
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Nature's Argonaut: Daniel Solander 1733-1782 Nature's Argonaut is the first full biography of this important eighteenth century naturalist who now only circled the globe under sail but ranged as far north ...
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On Austral Shores: A Modern Traveller's Guide to the European Exploration of the Coasts of Vicotiran and New South Wales
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Part Australian history, part travel guide, this unique book takes the reader on a journey to rediscover those features, on or near the shores of New South Wales and Victoria, which were described and named by the early explorers. This book provides directions on how to reach nearly 200 exploration sites by road or on foot ...
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Pioneers of the Pacific: Voyages of Exploration 1787-1810
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When Captain Cook died on Hawaii on 1779, Britain was already at war with France and Spain, who had allied themselves with her rebellion American subjects. The new ...
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Sea of Dangers: Captain Cook and His Rivals
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Two ships set out in search of a missing continent: the St Jean-Baptiste, a French merchant ship commanded by Jean de Surville, and the Endeavour, a small British naval vessel captained by James Cook. In 'Sea of Dangers', Geoffrey Blainey tells the story of these rival ships and the men who sailed in them. Just before Christmas 1769, the two captains were almost close enough to see one another - and yet they did not know of each other's existence ...
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The French Explorers and Sydney
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The early years of Sydney were witnessed by seven expeditions of French exploration between 1788 and 1831. This book contains previously unpublished translations of journals and records of these French explorers ...
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Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas
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Captain James Cook's three voyages to the South Seas are among the most astonishing expeditions in history - as he and his men circled the world, charting perilous tropical seas and icy Antarctic waters. Drawing on contemporary accounts, the author's vivid narrative weaves the stories ...
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Voyage to Australia and the Pacific 1791-1793
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In 1791 Admiral Bruny d'Entrecasteaux sailed with two ships from France to search for his compatriot, the explorer La Pérouse, who was missing in the Pacific.P Although d'Entrecasteaux failed to discover ...
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Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes
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At the turn of the eighteenth century, Australia might nominally have belonged to England, but it was France who knew her best. For the French, Australia and the Pacific were places of discovery, imagination ...
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