AUSTRALIAN NATURAL HISTORY –

SUPERIOR COPY! Well researched and beautifully illustrated, William Dampier in New Holland documents Dampier’s two voyages of discovery to Australia, featuring photographs of his original specimens – some of which have survived to this day – as well as providing an accurate botanical and historical record commemorating Dampier’s contribution to Australia’s natural history.

First Edition.

• xx, 171 p. : ill., ; 24 cm.

  • Bibliography : p. 151 – 157

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• Subject:

  • Environment – Biodiversity – Plants
  • Environment – Biodiversity – Animals
  • Western Australia (WA)

  Subject:

  • Dampier, William, 1652-1715
  • Naturalists — Australia — Biography
  • Historians of science — Australia — Biography
  • Natural history — Australia