Where is Here?: 350 Years Of Exploring AustraliaTim Flannery 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. |
Contents
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 |