Secret Discovery of Australia, The: Portugese ventures 200 years before Captain Cook

EXPLORATION MARITIME AUSTRALIA

“By studying ancient maps – particularly those known as the Dauphin and ‘Dieppe’ maps – and researching the history of Portuguese navigation from the time of Henry the Navigator.shows that not only was Captain James Cook not the first European to visit Australia, he was preceded by more than 200 years. For is it not reasonably that the Portuguese who discovered Timor in the mid-16th century should have found the vast continent a mere 250 miles away, as well? How else to explain the mysterious records of the finding of a wrecked ‘Mahogany Ship’ on the Western Australian coast?”

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• xxi, 427 p. : maps ; 23 cm. #300324
• Australia. Portuguese exploration, 1516-1606
• Settlement and contacts – Explorers – European
• Settlement and contacts – Explorers
• Australia — Discovery and exploration — Portuguese
• Portugal — History — Period of discoveries, 1385-1580
• Australia