Beyond Capricorn: How Portuguese Adventurers Secretly Discovered and Mapped Australia 250 Years Before Captain Cook by Peter Trickett

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, with corners now protected by book tape. Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Pages are sunned. Interior and binding are still very good.

Trickett argues that in the year 1522, the Portuguese sailed past Fraser Island into Botany Bay, and around Wilson's Promontory as far as Kagaroo Island before returning to their base in Malacca via the North Island of New Zealand. A century before the Dutch and 250 years before Captain Cook. (back cover)