The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier

Brief Description: A lively collection of extraordinary stories of adventure and discovery, The Explorers tells the epic saga of the conquest and settlement of Australia. Editor Tim Flannery selects sixty-seven accounts that convey the sense of wonder and discovery, along with the human dimensions of struggle and deprivation, which occurred in the exploration of the last continent to be fully mapped by Europeans. Beginning with the story of Dutch captain Willem Janz's 1606 expedition at Cape York -- the bloody outcome of which would sadly foreshadow future relations between colonists and Aboriginal peoples -- and running through Robyn Davidson's 1977 camelback ride through the desolate Outback deserts, The Explorers bristles with the enterprise that Flannery explains as "heroic, for nowhere else did explorers face such an obdurate country."Marc Notes: Bibl. ref.; Orig. pub.: Melbourne, Vic.: Text Pub. Co., 1998. Publisher Marketing: In this lively collection of stories of adventure and discovery, The Explorers tells the epic saga of the conquest and settlement of Australia. Flannery presents 67 accounts that convey the sense of wonder along with the dimensions of struggle. Review Citations:

Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2000 pg. 1163 (EAN 9780802137197, Paperback)

Library Journal 09/01/2000 pg. 238 (EAN 9780802137197, Paperback)

Publishers Weekly 09/11/2000 pg. 81 (EAN 9780802137197, Paperback)

Booklist 09/01/2000 pg. 45 (EAN 9780802137197, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Flannery, Tim TIM FLANNERY has written many award-winning books, including The Weather Makers, which reached #1 in Canada, An Explorer's Notebook, Now or Never and Here on Earth. He is the National Geographic Society's Australasian representative and a director of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy. In January 2007, he was named Australian of the Year and in 2011, he became Australia's first climate commissioner. Visit him online at theweathermakers.org.