The Great Race [Audiobook] download free by David Hill
- Listen audiobook: The Great Race
- Author: David Hill
- Release date: 2013/4/24
- Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE AUSTRALIA
- Language: Not Available
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9781742751108
- Rating: 8.92 of 10
- Votes: 653
- Review by: Bryson Tibbs
- Review rating: 9.29 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/11
- Duration: 4H58M20S in 256 kbps (80 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-03
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, MP4, Shorten, MP3, MPEG4, WMA, FLAC (compression RZ, ARC, RAR, TZO, AZW4, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 400
- Includes a PDF summary of 45 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 35M10S (9 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The thrilling race between Frenchman Nicolas Baudin and Englishman Matthew Flinders to chart 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 Australia. These men s journeys were the culmination of two hundred years of exploration of the region by the Dutch most famously Abel Tasman the Portuguese, the Spanish and by Englishmen such as the colourful pirate William Dampier and, of course, James Cook. The three-year voyages of Baudin and Flinders would see them endure terrible hardships in the spirit of discovery. They suffered scurvy and heat exhaustion, and Flinders was shipwrecked and imprisoned always knowing he was competing with the French to produce the first map of this mysterious continent. Written from diaries and other first-hand accounts, this
- Other categories, genre or collection: Australasian & Pacific History, Expeditions, Geographical Discovery & Exploration
- Download servers: Google Drive, Waistra, Torrent, Microsoft OneDrive, Volafile, MEGA, BitShare. Compressed in RZ, ARC, RAR, TZO, AZW4, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 16.08 USD
- Dimensions: 133x196x28mm
- Weight: 303g
- Printed by: William Heinemann Australia
- Published in: North Sydney, Australia
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