Shipwreck, sailors & 60,000 years : 1778 and all that happened before then / Jackie French ; illustrations and cartoons by Peter Sheehan.

By: French, JackieContributor(s): Sheehan, Peter, 1964-Material type: TextTextSeries: French, Jackie. Fair dinkum histories ; Publication details: Lindfield N.S.W. : Scholastic Press, 2009, c2006Description: 170 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: 9781741693133Subject(s): Australia -- History -- To 1788 -- Juvenile literatureDDC classification: 994.01 Summary: The Indigenous people of Australia have lived here for tens of thousands of years. They survived the ice age and ancient global warming. They saw oceans sink and oceans rise. They watched the mega-beasts disappear and dingoes arrive. Theirs is the oldest civilisation in the world. Then along came the Dutch. And the Portuguese. And the British. Things would never be the same again.Summary: 8 yrs+Summary: Australian history.
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First published by Scholastic Press, 2006.

Includes index.

The Indigenous people of Australia have lived here for tens of thousands of years. They survived the ice age and ancient global warming. They saw oceans sink and oceans rise. They watched the mega-beasts disappear and dingoes arrive. Theirs is the oldest civilisation in the world. Then along came the Dutch. And the Portuguese. And the British. Things would never be the same again.

8 yrs+

Australian history.

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