Early Australian Voyages
Early Australian Voyages
by John Pinkerton
Contents:
Introduction
Pelsart
Tasman
Dampier
INTRODUCTION.
In the days of Plato, imagination found its way, before the mariners, to a new world across the Atlantic, and fabled an Atlantis where America now stands. In the days of Francis Bacon, imagination of the English found its way to the great Southern Continent before the Portuguese or Dutch sailors had sight of it, and it was the home of those wise students of ...