Ernest Scott

Terre Napoléon

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A discussion of Nicholas Baudin's 1800 1804 survey of the unexplored south coast of Australia, first published in 1910.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9781108030786
• ISBN-10: 1108030785
• Artikelnr.: 33400190

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Flinders and the 'Investigator'
2. The affair of Encounter Bay
3. Port Phillip
4. Terre Napoléon and its nomenclature
5. Did the French use Flinders' charts?
6. The motives of Bonaparte
7. Genesis of Baudin's expedition
8. Exodus of the expedition
9. Port Jackson and King Island
10. Return of the expedition
11. Results
12. Conclusions and consequences
Bibliography
Index.