Ernest Scott

The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1914 biography, based on thorough archival research, vividly describes the eventful life of the first navigator to circumnavigate Australia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 612
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 852g
• ISBN-13: 9781108040617
• ISBN-10: 1108040616
• Artikelnr.: 34571032

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Birth and origins
2. At school and at sea
3. A voyage under Bligh
4. The battle off Brest
5. Australian geography before Flinders
6. The Reliance and the Tom Thumb
7. The discovery of Bass Strait
8. The voyage of the Francis
9. Circumnavigation of Tasmania
10. The fate of George Bass
11. On the Queensland Coast
12. The Investigator
13. The French expedition
14. South Coast discovery
15. Flinders and Baudin in Encounter Bay
16. Flinders in Port Phllip
17. The French at Port Jackson. Péron the spy
18. Australia circumnavigated
19. Wrecked on the Barrier Reef
20. To Ile-de-France in the Cumberland
21. General Decaen
22. The captivity
23. The captivity prolonged
24. The captivity modified
25. The order of release
26. The release
27. Last years and death of Flinders
28. Characteristics
29. The navigator
30. The naming of Australia
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.