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Paperback The Great Race: The Race Between the English and the French to Complete the Map of Australia Book

ISBN: 0349140421

ISBN13: 9780349140421

The Great Race: The Race Between the English and the French to Complete the Map of Australia

On the afternoon of 8 April 1802, in the remote southern ocean, two explorers had a remarkable chance encounter. Englishman Matthew Flinders and Frenchman Nicolas Baudin had been sent by their governments on the same quest: to explore the uncharted coast of the great south land and find out whether the west and east coasts, four thousand kilometres apart, were part of the same island.

And so began the race to compile the definitive map of...

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