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From the edge : Australia's lost histories /

March 1797. Ninety Mile Beach, Victoria. Five British sailors and twelve Bengali seamen swim ashore after their longboat is ripped apart in a storm. The British penal colony at Port Jackson is 700 kilometres to the north, their fellow-survivors from the wreck of the Sydney Cove stranded far to the s...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McKenna, Mark, 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Publishing, 2016.
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505 0 |a Intro; Title; Copyright; Contents; Eyeing the Country; 1 Walking the Edge: South-East Australia, 1797; 2 'World's End': Port Essington, Cobourg Peninsula, West Arnhem Land; 3 'Hip Bone Sticking Out': Murujuga and the Legacy of the Pilbara Frontier; 4 On Grassy Hill: Gangaar (Cooktown), North Queensland; Notes; Acknowledgements; Index 
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