The Savage Shore : Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery / Graham Seal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seal, Graham, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folklore--Australia--Bibliography.

Folklore.

Australia--Social life and customs--Bibliography.

Australia.

Australia--Discovery and exploration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook and the so-called First Fleet in 1788, intrepid seafaring explorers had been searching, with varied results, for the fabled "Great Southland." In this enthralling history of early discovery, Graham Seal offers breathtaking tales of shipwrecks, perilous landings, and Aboriginal encounters with the more than three hundred Europeans who washed up on these distant shores long before the land was claimed by Cook for England. The author relates dramatic, previously untold legends of survival gleaned from the centuries of Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Indonesian voyages to Australia, and debunks commonly held misconceptions about the earliest European settlements: ships of the Dutch East Indies Company were already active in the region by the early seventeenth century, and the Dutch, rather than the English, were probably the first European settlers on the continent.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Map

Introduction

Notes on usage

Prologue

1. Imagining the unknown Southland

2. First encounters

3. 'More like monsters'

4. Blood islands

5. Paper voyages

6. Death of the dragon

7. Cliffs of fire

8. The ship of doom

9. Skeleton coasts

10. Empires collide

11. The unknown coast

12. The last legend

13. Surviving the Southland

Afterword: With the bones

Acknowledgements

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

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:

0-300-22325-0

OCLC:

944310323