Where is Here?: 350 Years Of Exploring Australia

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Tim Flannery
Text Publishing, Sep 3, 2007 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 352 pages
Where is Here? is a concise version for young adults of Flannery's classic anthology, The Explorers, including a revised introduction.

The explorers of Australia were many and varied, beginning with Indigenous Australians. They often forged ahead for the Dutch, the French or the English explorers, looking for food, water and new territory.

Some explorers imagined a green land with a vast interior ocean. 'The Great South Land' was considered a place of monsters and miracles. Now that we are trying to imagine a sustainable future for our planet, these explorers tell us what the land was like and how the Indigenous Australians treated the environment.

In these exciting, heartbreaking diaries of the men and women who explored our country, young readers will get a sense of the freedom of travelling into the unknown. These amazing stories will inspire everyone to become passionate modern explorers, alive to our incredible environment.

 

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WILLIAM DAMPIER 1688
9
JAMES COOK 1770
23
ARTHUR PHILLIP 1788
42
JOHN PRICE 1798
68
GREGORY BLAXLAND 1813
89
CHARLES STURT 1830
108
GEORGE AUGUSTUS ROBINSON 1831
124
THOMAS LIVINGSTONE MITCHELL 1836
140
CHARLES STURT 1845
198
JOHN AINSWORTH HORROCKS 1846
211
JOHN MacGILLIVRAY 1848
226
JOHN KING 1861
245
GEORG NEUMAYER 1862
258
JOHN FORREST 1874
285
DAVID CARNEGIE 1896
299
ROBYN DAVIDSON 1977
314

GEORGE GREY 1838
154
LUDWIG LEICHHARDT 1844
183

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About the author (2007)

Born in Melbourne in 1956, Tim Flannery is a writer, scientist and explorer. He has written numerous books, including the award-winning bestsellers The Future Eaters, The Eternal Frontier and The Weather Makers. The 2007 Australian of the Year, Flannery is Panasonic Professor in Environmental Sustainability at Macquarie University, and is National Geographic's representative in Australasia. From 2007 to 2010 he chaired the Copenhagen Climate Council. Flannery lives on the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales.

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