Dampier The Dutch And The Great South Land

Author : Rob Mundle
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ISBN 13 : 9780733338663
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dampier, the Dutch and the Great South Land written by Rob Mundle and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of how Dutch sailors found Australia and an English pirate almost beat Captain Cook Rob Mundle is back on the water with another sweeping and powerful account of Australian maritime history. It is the story of 17th-century European mariners - sailors, adventurers and explorers - who became transfixed by the idea of the existence of a Great South Land: 'Terra Australis Incognita'. Rob takes you aboard the tiny ship, Duyfken, in 1606 when Dutch navigator and explorer, Willem Janszoon, and his 20-man crew became the first Europeans to discover Australia - on the coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria. In the decades that followed, more Dutch mariners, like Hartog, Tasman, and Janszoon (for a second time), discovered and mapped the majority of the coast of what would become Australia. Yet, incredibly, the Dutch made no effort to lay claim to it, or establish any settlements. This process began with British explorer and former pirate William Dampier on the west coast in 1688, and by the time Captain Cook arrived in 1770, all that was to be done was chart the east coast and claim what the Dutch had discovered.

Author : Rob Mundle
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ISBN 13 : 9780733334580
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great South Land written by Rob Mundle and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Dutch sailors found Australia and an English Pirate almost beat Captain Cook. On 15 January 1688 - almost 100 years to the day before Captain Arthur Phillip arrived in Botany Bay as commander of the First Fleet - another English ship, the sixteen-gun Cygnet, was running downwind on a gentle breeze while closing on the coast of the same continent. Cygnet, however, was 2000 miles to the north-west of where Phillip would anchor HMS Sirius and go ashore to finally establish the first British colony in the Great South Land. To get to this point, Cygnet had crossed the Pacific from the coast of Mexico to the East Indies with a 140-man crew comprising a bunch of unruly seafarers, young and old ... and pirates all.

Author : Samuel Bennett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Australian Discovery and Colonisation written by Samuel Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel BENNETT (of Sydney.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Australian Discovery and Colonisation. [With Illustrations.] written by Samuel BENNETT (of Sydney.) and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gunter Schymkiw
Publisher : R.I.C. Publications
ISBN 13 : 1863114998
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australian Explorers written by Gunter Schymkiw and published by R.I.C. Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian explorers (blackline master)

Author : Michael Pearson
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ISBN 13 : 9780642551856
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Great Southern Land written by Michael Pearson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Miriam Estensen
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 9781865081397
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discovery written by Miriam Estensen and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 1999 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six centuries before the birth of Christ, men began to dream of a vast land at the bottom of the world. This is the story of a quest which, across two millennia, compelled men in small ships to traverse unknown seas and endure great hardship in order to discover the last continent.

Author : Glyndwr Williams
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300105681
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great South Sea written by Glyndwr Williams and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, English buccaneers, privateers, and naval expeditions sought fame and fortune in the distant reaches of the South Sea. Beginning with the voyage of Francis Drake in the 1570s and continuing through that of George Anson in the 1740s, a series of predatory English adventurers pursued Spanish treasure, and for a few the dream of riches came true. For most, the voyages ended in disappointment, and sometimes death. This engrossing book investigates these maritime adventures and how they were described in popular accounts of the time--accounts that affected English consciousness and perceptions of the wider world and that influenced the planning and nature of the later great voyages of James Cook and others. Glyndwr Williams, a leading expert on the exploration of the Pacific Ocean, draws on printed accounts of South Sea voyages as well as unpublished records--buccaneer journals, expedition papers, and government documents from public and private archives. For English seamen preying on Spanish trade and treasure, the South Sea was limited to the waters lapping the shores of Chile, Peru, and Mexico. But the vision was wider for others, Williams reveals. Cartographers at home in England, untrammeled by the constraints and dangers of actual voyaging, produced speculative maps with a vast Terra Australis Incognita, with fabulous Islands of Solomon, and with a promised short passage from Atlantic to Pacific. Satirical and utopian writers from Joseph Hall to Jonathan Swift found ample space in the wide ocean for their fictional travelers. And contemporary published voyage accounts--marvelous, though not necessarily reliable--further blurred the line between real and imaginary, contributing to the alluring, exotic image of the South Sea that took root in English folk memory and long outlasted the age of the buccaneers.

Author : William Dampier
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Voyage Round the World written by William Dampier and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New South Wales. Government Printing Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
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Download or read book An Epitome of the Official History of New South Wales written by New South Wales. Government Printing Office and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: