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$29.95 – Paperback book / National Lib Of Aust / ISBN:9780642276841

Australian Backyard Explorer

Winner of the 2010 CBCA Book of the Year Award for Non-Fiction.

Australian Backyard Explorer tells the stories of many intrepid individuals who explored the Australian continent in the first 120 years of European settlement. It includes little known explorers as well as the old favourites, such as James Cook, Edward John Eyre, Robert OHara Burke and William John Wills. There are tales not only of tragedy, conflict and death, but also of loyalty, amazing perseverance and wonder over the new animals and landscapes they encountered.

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