Shipwreck, sailors & 60,000 years
Subtitle: 1770 and all that happened before then
By: Jackie French ; illustrations and cartoons by Peter Sheehan
Contributors: Sheehan, Peter, 1964-
Series: Fair dinkum histories; Fair dinkum histories
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lindfield, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9781865048703
Subjects: Juvenile literature; History; Australia - History; Australia - Discovery and exploration; Ouvrages pour la jeunesse; Histoire
Other titles: Shipwreck, sailors and 60,000 years
Description: In 1493 the Pope gave Portugal the half of the world that included eastern Australia. By 1770, the Dutch had claimed the western, northern and southern coastlines of the continent - and Cook claimed the east coast for the British in 1770. But unlike the Europeans who claimed New Holland as their own, many nations of indigenous people had already been living there for tens of thousands of years...Shipwrecks, Sailors and 60,000 Years is the prequel to Grim Crims and Convicts. Jackie French touches on just about everything human that has happened on the Australian continent prior to British settlement. Illustrations, cartoons and jokes on every page. www.dymocks.com.au Site accessed 03/08/06.
Notes: For upper primary/lower secondary students.