Collins Big Cat - Mapping Australia: Band 15/Emerald

by Richard Platt

Overview

Discover how people have mapped Australia - from songs that recorded what the landscape looked like, and early explorers' drawings, to modern maps and satellite images.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780008163907
Publisher:	HarperCollins UK
Publication date:	12/01/2016
Series:	Collins Big Cat
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	8 - 9 Years

About the Author

Richard Platt is the award-winning author of over 90 titles, fiction and non-fiction. He is an amateur expert on the sea, and especially on smuggling and piracy. He is also fascinated by social history and by the history of science and technology. Richard lives in rural Kent with his wife, a black cat and five chickens.

Table of Contents

The great South Land 2

Part 1 New Holland 4

Songlines 4

Terra Australis 6

First to land 8

Dutch wrecks and maps 10

Discovering New Holland 12

Part 2 James Cook 14

Young James 14

To war! 16

Transit of Venus 18

Around New Zealand 20

Destination Oz 22

Return and fame 24

Second time around 26

The final voyage 28

Part 3 Completing the picture 32

Mapping the coast 32

The river mystery 34

Filling in the middle 36

Forgotten heroes 38

Whose land is it anyway? 42

Glossary 44

Index 45

Explorers and mapmakers 46