Sea of dangers : Captain Cook and his rivals /
Geoffrey Blainey.
- Camberwell, Vic. : Viking, 2008.
- xi, 420 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Towards the Land of the Long Canoes -- A Missing Continent -- A French Floating Bazaar -- Young Nick's Day -- The Sea of Surville -- Two Ships Went Sailing By -- Wild Musicians and Wilder Seas -- Where Are all the People? -- In Botany Bay -- Into the Coral Jaws -- A Seductive Moon -- In Cook's River-Camp -- Kangaru -- A Happy Puff of Wind -- The Guns of Mournin -- Deadly Cloud over Java -- Is there War in Europe? -- Two Voyages and their Ripples -- Postscript: Who was the Discoverer?
"This is the most revealing narrative so far written of Cook's astonishing voyage along the east coast of Australia. It also casts new light on the little-known voyage by Jean de Surville; Blainey argues that the Frenchman was in the vicinity of Sydney Harbour months before Cook arrived. Eventually Cook set out to explore the hazardous Barrier Reef and find a way through Torres Strait, while the Frenchman searched for a mysterious Jewish colony in the South Pacific."--BOOK JACKET.
9780670072231 (hbk.)
Surville, Jean de, 1717-1770 --Travel. Surville, Jean François de, 1717-1770 --Journeys. Cook, James, 1728-1779 --Travel. Cook, James, 1728-1779 --Journeys. Surville, Jean de, 1717-1770 --Journeys.