| Description |
xiii, 386 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, portrait ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
1. Wreck Reefs -- 2. Cook, Bligh and Flinders -- 3. To Paradise with Bligh -- 4. A Mission Accomplished -- 5. To the Battlefront -- 6. Small Boats - Big Challenge -- 7. South in Search of a Strait -- 8. A Strait and Island Found -- 9. Commander Flinders Takes the Helm -- 10. Investigator on the Southern Coast -- 11. The Circumnavigation -- 12. A Fate Foretold -- 13. Passport to Imprisonment -- 14. 'Let Us Dismiss...' |
| Summary |
Matthew Flinders is a towering figure in Australian history the first to chart our coastline and the leading champion for naming the country Australia. In 1801 he was made commander of the expedition of his life the first close circumnavigation of Terra Australis. Famous for his meticulous charts and superb navigational skills, Flinders was a bloody good sailor. He battled treacherous conditions in a boat hardly seaworthy, faced the loss of a number of his crewmen and, following a shipwreck on a reef off the Queensland coast, navigated the ship s cutter over 1000 kilometres back to Sydney to get help. Rob Mundle brings Matthew Flinders fascinating story to life from the heroism and drama of shipwreck, imprisonment and long voyages in appalling conditions, to the heartbreak of being separated from his beloved wife for most of their married life |
| Analysis |
Australia |
| Notes |
"Shipwreck, storms, death and danger - and the race to beat the French"--Dust jacket |
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Maps on endpapers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Flinders, Matthew, 1774-1814 -- Travel -- Australia.
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Flinders, Matthew, 1774-1814.
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Coastal mapping -- Australia -- History.
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Explorers -- Australia -- Biography.
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Explorers, English -- Australia -- Biography
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Investigator (Ship : Captain = Matthew Flinders)
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Discovery and exploration http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114308 -- British
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Australia -- Discovery and exploration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114308
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Australia -- History -- 1788-1851. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009592
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Northern Territory http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035353 -- Discovery and exploration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002238
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2013433601 |
| ISBN |
0733628508 (hbk.) |
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9780733628504 (hbk.) |
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