From Baird Maritime:
Most modern Australians have, thanks to their secondary education, an at least fleeting familiarity with the explorers Cook, Tasman and Flinders.
Ask them, however, about Janzoon, Torres or even Boudin and you'll mostly draw a blank. The fact is that most Australian history has been English centric. This, despite the fact, that there are worthwhile records extant of Dutch contact going back as far as 1600.
This very useful and well researched collection of essays was produced to commemorate the four centuries of recorded European contact with the land now known as Australia and its indigenous people.
While sometimes a touch politically correct in tone, the essays still provide a very valuable service in collating an enormous amount of information, from both sides, about the development of Aboriginal-European contact and conflict.
The notes and references in each case are invaluable.
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