"The Globe", journal of the Australian & NZ Map Society, is seeking a reviewer for the following book:
Beating France to Botany Bay: the race to found Australia
Margaret Cameron-Ash
Sydney: Quadrant, 2021
x, 465 pages : colour plates, portraits, maps, illustrations, bibliography, index.
Hardback with dustjacket.
ISBN 9780648996125
publisher webpage:
This 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. The contestants finally met in Botany
Bay, with the French just five days too late. Behind the scenes, American explorers, spies and a future US President made contributions that assisted the winners and prevented the continent becoming a French possession.
If you would like to review this title for us, please let me know your postal address off-list .
Brendan Whyte
editor, "The Globe"