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The savage shore : extraordinary stories of survival and tragedy from the early voyages of discovery / Graham Seal.
LIBRA GR365 .S45 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seal, Graham, 1950- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folklore--Australia--Bibliography.
- Folklore.
- Manners and customs.
- Australia--Social life and customs--Bibliography.
- Australia.
- Australia--Discovery and exploration.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Genre:
- Bibliographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 298 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Map
- Introduction
- Notes on usage
- Prologue
- Imagining the unknown Southland
- First encounters
- 'More like monsters'
- Blood islands
- Paper voyages
- Death of the dragon
- Cliffs of fire
- The ship of doom
- Skeleton coasts
- Empires collide
- The unknown coast
- The last legend
- Surviving the southland
- Afterword: With the bones.
- Notes:
- Originial edition has subtitle: extraordinary stories of survival and tragedy from the early voyages of discovery to Australia.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Edition:
- Reproduction of: Seal, Graham. Sydney, N. SW : Allen & Unwin, 2015 (xxi, 298 pages ; 24 cm.) Call number of original: GR365.S45 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780300220414
- 0300220413
- OCLC:
- 923796138
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