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Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2010. xvii, 435pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw & col ills. Pictorial card. Light edge wear to covers, very light foxing to prelims. To Australia's monsoon coast, stretching from Broome to Thursday Island came Australia's earliest explorers, greatest hydrographic explorers, the whole of her pearling fleets, trepang and trochus gatherers of the East Indies, seaborne missionaries of Cape ork, Arnhem Land and the Kimberley shore, and the entrpreneurs who forged and kept open the thin line of sea transportat that alone enabled European settlement to survive. Together they make a fascinating maritime history of Australia's northern coastline.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.