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Shipwrecks, Sailors and 60,000 Years Before 1788

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Shipwrecks, Sailors and 60,000 Years Before 1788

In 1493 the Pope gave Portugal the half of the world that included eastern Australia. By 1770 the Dutch had claimed the western, northern and southern coastlines of the continent – and Cook claimed the east coast for the British in 1770. But unlike the Europeans who claimed New Holland as their own, many nations of Indigenous people had already been living there for tens of thousands of years…
Shipwreck, Sailors and 60,000 Years is a the prequel to Grim Crims and Convicts. In the grand sweeping gesture, Jackie French touches on just about everything human that happened on the Australian continent prior to British settlement. Illustrations, cartoons and jokes on every page.

IllustratorPeter Sheehan
SeriesFair Dinkum Histories — Book 1
FormatPaperback
ISBN9781741693133
Published29/10/2008
Price Per CopyRRP $16.99
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10–19 copies$14.44
20+ copies$13.59
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Jackie French

Jackie French is a full-time writer who lives in rural NSW. She writes columns in the print media, and sometimes presents on radio and on Burke’s Backyard. Her books for children include Rain Stones, shortlisted for the CBC Children’s Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers, 1991; Walking the Boundaries, a Notable Book in the CBC Awards, 1994; and Somewhere Around the Corner, an Honour Book in the CBC Awards, 1995. In 2000, Hitler’s Daughter won the CBC Younger Readers Award and the WOW! Award in the UK in 2001. How to Guzzle Your Garden was also shortlisted for the 2000 CBC Eve Pownall Award for Information. Most recently, Jackie won the 2002 ACT Book of the Year Award for In the Blood; her successful picture book Diary of a Wombat was named an Honour book in the 2003 CBC Awards and also won the 2003 Nielsen Book Data/ABA Book of the Year Award.

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