Australia's Coast of Coral and Pearl by Peter Lancaster Brown

Australia's Coast of Coral and Pearl

by Peter Lancaster Brown

Rigby, Seal Books, 1974, ISBN 0851795676, black and white photographs, paperback

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, small chips to edge and base of spine, (see photographs)

"The north-west coast of Australia was probably the first part of the continent on which the mariners of the ancient world set foot.  Australia's Coast of Coral and Pearl recounts various fascinating episodes from the history of discovery in this area of Australia.
The author also writes about his own twentieth century adventures in whaling, beachcombing and crayfishing in the Australian north-west.  he weaves into his account stories about the famous and colourful historical characters that went before him; figures such as Daisy Bates, who championed the Aboriginal cause, and the explorers who followed in Dampier's wake."