John Lort Stokes

Discoveries in Australia

Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stan;

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 468
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9781016138918
• ISBN-10: 1016138911
• Artikelnr.: 67184168

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.