Shipwrecks, Sailors and 60,000 Years: 1778 and All That Happened Before Then by Jackie French

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Secondhand. Near fine condition.

In 1493, the Pope granted Portugal half of the world, which included what is now eastern Australia. By 1770, the Dutch had claimed the continent's western, northern and southern coastlines — and Cook claimed the east coast for the British in 1770. However, unlike the Europeans who claimed New Holland as their own, many Indigenous nations had already lived in this region for tens of thousands of years...

Fair Dinkum Histories series.