{"product_id":"the-australian-explorers-von-george-grimm","title":"The Australian Explorers","description":"\u003cp\u003ePersons who have yet to make their acquaintance with the early history of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew South Wales will learn with surprise that the colony had been \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efounded for almost a quarter of a century before the Blue Mountain barrier \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewas crossed. For so long a period it was scarcely possible to proceed more \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethan forty miles from Sydney in any direction. Many a despairing look \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emust those early settlers have cast on the frowning ramparts of the range, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhich, leaving only a narrow margin between itself and the sea, threatened \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto convert the cradle of the colony into a Procrustes' bed, to which its \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edimensions would have to conform in the future, as they had done in the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epast. This sense of confinement was the harder to bear that it was met with \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein a land of freedom; and many a time did the caged eagle dash itself with \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efruitless rage against the bars of its prison. A record of the unsuccessful \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eattempts to get beyond the main range would form a heroic chapter of our \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehistory, and one, too, of which we might well feel proud, if there is any \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etruth in the saying that in great undertakings it is glorious even to fail. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin four months after the arrival of the \"first fleet\" our annals present a \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epicture of Governor Phillip and party struggling laboriously westward to \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe gorges of the mountains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9791041984572\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Exploration and Discovery of Australia's Interior\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9791041984572","offer_id":47647919341893,"sku":"9791041984572","price":18.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/09c75058-0cb2-4cd5-8210-d25784dd18cc.jpg?v=1768460271","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/the-australian-explorers-von-george-grimm","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}