Java La Grande. The Portuguese discovery of Australia

Java La Grande. The Portuguese discovery of Australia Hardcover, ISBN 9780949325006
Publisher: The Publishers, Hobart, 1986
Used – Very Good. 28.0 x 20.0cms 140pp b/w & spot colour illusts. The chapters are: discovery & exploration BC; Terra Australis Incohnita; Marco Polo; navigation & charting c 1770; 16th century navigation; the Portuguese role in discovery; Columbus & the enterprise of the Indies; the Treaty of Tordesillas; Ferdinand Margellan; Mendona”s expedition; the Dieppe maps of Java la Grande; the Treaty of Sargossa; the Wandjina cave painting; the cannons on Carronade Island; the ruins ast…