AUSTRALIANA EXPLORATION
France, Britain and Holland competed to create bases on Australia’s north west coast in the early 19th century. The explorers and settlers included Phillip Parker King, Freycinet, d’Urville, Wickham, Stokes, Grey, Blackwood, Yule, Kennedy and Stanley.
xx, 297 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. Bibliography: p. [275]-279. #010922/060125
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