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Australian Navigators - Picking Up Shells and Catching Butterflies in an Age of Revolution (Paperback)
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Australian Navigators - Picking Up Shells and Catching Butterflies in an Age of Revolution (Paperback)
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Why, in the closing decades of the 1700s, one of the bloodiest
periods in European history, 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?
Why engage in such a dangerous and potentially unrewarding task
when a much greater reward might be had fighting wars and sharing
the rewards of glory, promotion and prize money? Mortality on these
sea journeys was high. Very few of the French navigators survived
their first major expedition to the Pacific, and very few of the
British commanded more than one. Only one, William Bligh, ever
achieved what could be regarded as comfortable retirement. A great
deal has been written about many of these navigators - Bouganville,
Cook, Bligh, Bass, Baudin and Flinders - often in weighty volumes.
This book does not try to emulate such efforts. Instead it seeks to
address the spirit of the era, to examine afresh the personal
ambitions of these navigators, the quite often different goals of
their political patrons and backers, and the reasons why they did
or did not succeed. In portraying their frailty and their tenacity
author Robert Tiley has produced a fascinating study of lives as
relevant now as they were then.
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