They Came By Sea By Geoff Hocking

Seafarers had known of the existence of the great south land hundreds of years before Captain James Cook stepped ashore at Botany Bay on 29 April 1770.

It was not until Britain had lost the colonies of North America to the armies of the Republic that any attempt was made to examine the land in the southern seas.

'They Came By Sea' traces the Europeans' discovery of Australia, from the first sightings of the west coast by the Dutch and Portuguese traders in the seventeenth century to the planting pf the Union Jack at Botany Bay by Captain Arthur Phillip on 26 January 1788.

Book Information

Format: Paperback

Published: 2005

Genre: History

Pages: 32

Dimensions: 295 x 215mm

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