Great Australian journeys : gripping stories of intrepid explorers, dramatic escapes and foolhardy adventures / Graham Seal.
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TextSeries: Read how you want 16Publisher: [Strawberry Hills, NSW] : ReadHowYouWant, [2017]Copyright date: ©2016Edition: [Large print edition]Description: vi, 415 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781525238338; 9781760291013Subject(s): Explorers -- Australia -- Anecdotes | Travelers -- Australia -- Anecdotes | Voyages and travels -- Australia -- 19th century | Voyages and travels -- Australia -- 20th century | Adventure and adventurers -- Australia -- Anecdotes | Australia -- History -- Miscellanea | Australia -- Discovery and exploration | Australia -- Description and travel | Australia -- History -- 19th century | Australia -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Large type books. Summary: ANTHOLOGIES (NON-POETRY). AUSTRALIAN. Australia's history is one of epic journeys, intrepid explorers, and mysterious disappearances in far flung places. From perilous sea voyages to the distant south land, to forays across vast deserts on horseback, they are stories of endurance and misadventure, survival and loss. Master storyteller Graham Seal has gathered together a gripping collection of famous and lesser-known journeys by land, sea and air in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As Warren Fahey writes in his foreword, 'Some journeys, like those of Burke and Wills, Lasseter's First Find, and the razing of the riverboat Rodney, are relatively well known. Others, mostly unknown, are tales of bravado, determination and, sometimes, sheer madness. From the comfort and safety of your armchair you can join some of Australia's bravest and also some of its most foolhardy men and women in their adventures.
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ANTHOLOGIES (NON-POETRY). AUSTRALIAN. Australia's history is one of epic journeys, intrepid explorers, and mysterious disappearances in far flung places. From perilous sea voyages to the distant south land, to forays across vast deserts on horseback, they are stories of endurance and misadventure, survival and loss. Master storyteller Graham Seal has gathered together a gripping collection of famous and lesser-known journeys by land, sea and air in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As Warren Fahey writes in his foreword, 'Some journeys, like those of Burke and Wills, Lasseter's First Find, and the razing of the riverboat Rodney, are relatively well known. Others, mostly unknown, are tales of bravado, determination and, sometimes, sheer madness. From the comfort and safety of your armchair you can join some of Australia's bravest and also some of its most foolhardy men and women in their adventures.
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