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Title: The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier by Tim F. Flannery ISBN: 0-8021-3719-9 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 30 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book to Start Reading About Australian Explorers
Comment: This is an anthology of excerpts from Australian Explorers journals ranging from early sixteenth century European Explorers to Australians in the early 20th century. Flannery's introduction for each provides an excellent, concise biography and set up to each explorer's excerpt. In many of the excerpts, an explorer faces death and disaster. The most intriguing initially was Charles Sturt writing of his attempt to find the mythical lake in the center of Australia. He brings a boat, experiences weather so hot it bursts a thermometer his party carries, they suffer from extreme scurvy, and Sturt's desire to be the first to reach the center of Australia. The second explorer I read in this collection was Ernest Giles. His except focuses on an expedition with his assistant Gibson, who goes for help and manages to get lost, and then Giles slowly makes his way back to base camp. Reading The Explorers fascinated me enough that I wanted to read more about specific explorers like Giles, but also about Australian explorers in general.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Editor as Artist
Comment: My only criticism of Flannery's book is that it ends. I found myself wanting to read more of each story. But within a moment of turning to a new chapter, I was engrossed in another adventure. The Explorers is an outstanding selection of historical pieces and a fine example of the editor's art. First-person accounts like this truly offer a window into the minds and times of the people and places involved. (I recommend "Eyewitness to History" for those who enjoy this book.)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great read for travel
Comment: This book consists of brief excerpts from journals, letters and diaries of those foolish or brave enough to push beyond the known world along Australia's seaboards.
These explorers demonstrated unfathomable foolishness, unquenchable curiosity, bullheaded ethnocentricity, and, in too few cases, a passion for discovery for its own sake. As a reader you will be horrified, entertained, and enlightened by their adventures and misadventures.
I just returned from a trip to Australia and took this book along with me to read. It was perfect for a visitor with little knowledge of Australian history beyond Hughes' "Fatal Shore" (another great read).
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Title: The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding by Robert Hughes ISBN: 0394753666 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 February, 1988 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: A Concise History of Australia by Stuart MacIntyre ISBN: 0521625777 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Australia : True Stories of Life Down Under (Travelers' Tales) by Larry Habegger ISBN: 1885211406 Publisher: Travelers' Tales Guides Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australian Lands and People by Tim F. Flannery, Tim Flannery ISBN: 0802139434 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Amazon Journal: Dispatches from a Vanishing Frontier by Geoffrey O'Connor ISBN: 0452276101 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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