Word: jp
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...wayfaring Briton, speaks of "British thoroughness," situations "saved by British coolness," believes the British owe their love of adventure to Viking blood from the Normans. Thus although he gives the Dutchman Willem Janszoon credit for discovering Australia in 1605, he spends more time with James Cook who sailed intrepidly jp the east coast of the continent and won it for England. Yet he admires great explorers of any nationality, particularly Alexander the Great and Marco Polo. He las crossed the same fearful stretch of Persian desert where Marco found the water "so bitter that no one could possibly drink...