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Exploring Australia : European expansion across the continent

Weston, Joel2015
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An Australian history series, written with the new Australian History Curriculum in mind. It explores how demand for land grew as more people arrived & explorers forged into the bush to open up land for settlement thus displacing indigenous peoples.
Imprint:
Sydney Australian Geographic Education 2015
Collation:
32 pages colour illustrations maps
Audience:
Upper primarySecondary
Contents:
Arriving and exploring: First Fleet, Arthur Phillip, Watkin Tench -- Exploring by sea: George Bass, Matthew Flinders, John Grant, John Murray, Phillip Parker King -- Moving inland: Blue Mountains, Blaxland, Lawson, Wentworth, George Evans, John Oxley, Allan Cunningham -- Further afield: Hume and Hovell, Charles Sturt, Thomas Mitchell -- Across the continent: Australia Felix, George Grey, Edward Eyre, Sturt goes inland -- Heroic journeys: Ludwig Leichhardt, Edward Kennedy, Burke and Wills, Augustus Gregory, William Lansborough -- Through the centre: John McDouall Stuart, Francis Gregory -- Western explorations: John Forrest, Ernest Giles, Peter Warburton, William Gosse.
ISBN:
9781742456669 (hardback)
Dewey class:
994.02 EXP
Local class:
994.02
Language:
English
BRN:
7263
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