Notes

This book explores the story of Australia from the earliest times through at least 50,000yeasrs fo diverse and changing Aboriginal societies, to the time of its exploration by Asian and European travellers, and right up to the present day. See Australia in all its variety: its swamps, deserts and tropical rain forests. Read about the great Aboriginal trading routes and the voyages of Indonesian fishermen to Australia's northern coasts. Watcha s European explorers are defeated by the deserts of Australian in their search for water, land and gold.