Congratulations to Margaret Cameron-Ash for the publication of ‘Beating France to Botany Bay: The Race to Found Australia’

Congratulations to Margaret Cameron-Ash for the publication of Beating France to Botany Bay: The Race to Found Australia (Quadrant Books, 2021). The book rewrites the history of the founding of modern Australia. It tells how the French had a jump start in the race for a Pacific empire, but English officials then launched their own pursuit around the globe.

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