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THE fifth volume in this series is even better than the earlier ones. The material has been chosen with so much care and the stories told with such admirable lucidity that no one reading the volume can fail to get a well-balanced general view of the stages by which Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, and South Victoria Land became known and were explored. After some account of early voyages of discovery, there are chapters on the work of Cook, Bass, and Flinders, the overland journeys of Oxley, Stuart, Eyre, Grey, Burke, and others in Australia, followed by chapters on New Zealand and Papua. The book closes with two chapters on the Antarctic, giving accounts of the work of Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton in the Ross Sea and Mawson in Wilkes Land. There are a number of well-chosen illustrations and portraits, and every chapter has its own map. The series should be a valuable aid in teaching school geography.
Adventures of Exploration.
Book 5: Australia and New Zealand. By Sir John Scott Keltie and Samuel Carter Gilmour. Pp. iv + 204. (London: George Philip and Son, Ltd.; Liverpool: Philip, Son and Nephew, Ltd., n.d.) 2s. 3d.
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Adventures of Exploration . Nature 118, 910 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118910c0
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