Australian navigators
Subtitle: picking up shells and catching butterflies in an age of revolution
By: Robert Tiley.
Publisher: Kangaroo Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: East Roseville, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Explorers -- Australia.; Australia -- History -- To 1788.; Australia -- Discovery and exploration.
Description: Why, in the last decades of the 1700s, did sailors from the warring nations of Britain and France come to this far-flung corner of the world in an attempt to chart coastlines in the Pacific, including Australia? This is an account of the race to find and chart these coastlines.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.