John Lort Stokes

Discoveries in Australia

With an Account of the Hitherto Unknown Coasts Surveyed During the Voyage of the HMS Beagle, Between the Years 1837 an

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Produktbeschreibung

An 1846 account by an officer of H.M.S. Beagle of a six-year expedition to survey the coast of Australia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 588
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 819g
• ISBN-13: 9781108032711
• ISBN-10: 1108032710
• Artikelnr.: 33779505

Autorenporträt

John Lort Stokes (1811-1885) was an officer in the Royal Navy who travelled on HMS Beagle for close to eighteen years. From 1831 to 1836 Stokes served under FitzRoy as assistant surveyor for the second voyage of Beagle, and shared his cabin with Charles Darwin who was on board in a private capacity as a self-funded naturalist.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Introduction
2. Plymouth to Bahia
3. From the Cape to Swan River
4. From Swan River to Roebuck Bay
5. From Roebuck Bay to Skeleton Point
6. Point Cunningham to Fitz-Roy River
7. The Fitz-Roy River to Port George the Fourth, and return to Swan River
8. Swan River to Sydney
9. Bass Strait
10. Sydney to Port Essington
11. Port Essington
12. Leave Port Essington
Appendix.