NORTHERN VOYAGERS AUSTRALIAS MONSOON COAST IN MARITIME HISTORY HGE501 the seaborne missionaries of Cape

the seaborne missionaries of Cape York

For this fourth edition

The third edition brings the book up-to-date in light of significant developments in the nine years since the last edition

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NORTHERN VOYAGERS AUSTRALIAS MONSOON COAST IN MARITIME HISTORY HGE501 the seaborne missionaries of CapeThe maritime history of Australia's monsoon coast, stretching from Broome to Thursday Island, has a known story that is far older, more complex and more redolent of men against the sea than any other coast of the continent. Here came the earliest explorers of Australia, the greatest of her hydrographic surveyors, the whole of her pearling fleets, the trepang and trochus shell gatherers of the East Indies, the seaborne missionaries of Cape York, Arnhem