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Why, in the last decades of the 1700s, did sailors from the warring nations of Britain and France come to this far-flung corner of the world in an attempt to chart coastlines in the Pacific, including Australia? This is an account of the race to find and chart these coastlines.
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1 edition- Other · English · 2002Kangaroo Press · 243 pages · 9780731811182
Discovery and explorationExplorersHistoryBoats and boatingAustralian studiesAustralia, discovery and exploration