Terra Australis Incognita: The Spanish quest for the mysterious Great South Land
Allen & Unwin, $35 hb, 285 pp
History
Pursuit of a myth
by Gillian Dooley •
Miriam Estensen is prodigious. It is only a year since I reviewed her Life of George Bass (2005) in ABR, and here is another well-researched historical volume, out in time to mark the four-hundredth anniversary of the Spanish expedition, which inter alia made the first European passage through the Torres Strait.
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