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The Great Race

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781742751108 Author(s): David Hill Format: Paperback Year: 2013 Publisher: Random House Australia Dimensions: 133 x 28 x 196 (w x l x h) Pages: 400

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Description: The thrilling race between Frenchman Nicolas Baudin and Englishman Matthew Flinders to chart the map of Australia. On the afternoon of 8 April 1802, in the remote southern ocean, two explorers had a remarkable chance encounter. Englishman Matthew Flinders and Frenchman Nicolas Baudin had been sent by their governments on the same quest: to explore the uncharted coast of the great south land and find out whether the west and east coasts, four thousand kilometres apart, were part of the same island. And so began the race to compile the definitive map of Australia. These men's journeys were the culmination of two hundred years of exploration of the region by the Dutch most famously Abel Tasman the Portuguese, the Spanish and by Englishmen such as the colourful pirate William Dampier and, of course, James Cook. The three-year voyages of Baudin and Flinders would see them endure terrible hardships in the spirit of discovery. They suffered scurvy and heat exhaustion, and Flinders was shipwrecked and imprisoned always knowing he was competing with the French to produce the first map of this mysterious continent. Written from diaries and other first-hand accounts, this

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