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The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand - From the Earliest Date to the Present Day (Paperback)
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The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand - From the Earliest Date to the Present Day (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania, Volume 2
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The prolific writer William Howitt (1792 1879) embarked for
Australia in 1852 and spent two years there travelling and panning
for gold. His experiences resulted in several books that appealed
to the Victorian public's avid interest in Antipodean exploration.
Published in 1865, when New Zealand had only been recognised as a
country for a generation, this two-volume work describes 'scenes of
danger and of wild romance, of heroic daring and devoted deaths,
such as few countries have to show'. It gives a valuable account of
early European exploration and settlement in Australia and New
Zealand as well as insights into European travellers' responses to
this previously unknown continent. Volume 2 begins in the
mid-1840s, and focuses on the 1861 disappearance in Australia of
Burke and Wills, the expeditions searching for them (including one
led by Howitt's son), and visits to New Zealand by explorers
including Charles Heaphy and Julius Haast.
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