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Beyond Cook: Explorers of Australia and the Pacific

CC BY (Attribution)   English (United States)

Author(s): Claire Brennan

Subject(s): Australasian and Pacific history, Geographical discovery and exploration, Australasia, Oceania, Pacific Islands, Atlantic Islands, Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity, History of ideas

Institution(s): James Cook University

Publisher: James Cook University

Last updated: 08/12/2024

When Europeans entered the Pacific they entered a place they thought they knew, and a place that was already peopled. European explorer accounts of Australia and the Pacific are fascinating in what they reveal about the people and places explorers encountered, and about European expectations of what they would find. This book is a guide to European exploration of Australia and the Pacific; to those accounts of contact and how to interpret them in the light of European preconceptions and misunderstanding; and to the actions taken by the people descended from the regions' original explorers.