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Before the First Fleet : Europeans in Australia 1606-1777 / John Kenny.
Record no.:
6447
Author:
Kenny, John, 1906-1987.;
Publisher:
Kenthurst, NSW :: Kangaroo Press,
Year:
1995.
Description:
184 pages : colour illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Subject:
Australia - Discovery and exploration - French.;
Australia - History - To 1788.;
Australia - Discovery and exploration.;
Notes:
Maps on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-179) and index.Noel Dan
Gift ;
2023.
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
0864176457;
Abstract:
Patterns of exploration -- Results of discovery -- The naming of Australian places.

Exploration of Australia; Dutch and English, 1606-1756; English and French, 1768-80; results of discovery, botany, zoology, ethnography, encounters with Aborigines;
art; origin of European names for Australian places; brief description of meeting Tasmanian Aborigines.
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