Australia Circumnavigated. the Voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator, 1801-1803 / Volume I: The Voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigato

ISBN-13: 9781032294285 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 440 str.

Kenneth Morgan

Opis

This two-volume work provides the first edited publication of Matthew Flinders’s fair journals from the first circumnavigation of Australia in 1801-1803 in HMS Investigator, and of the ’Memoir’ he wrote to accompany his journals and charts. These are among the most important primary texts in Australian maritime history and European voyaging in the Pacific. This edition has a substantial introduction and textual introduction complemented with photographic excerpts from Flinders’s survey sheets, maps of the voyage, and illustrations of the botanical and artistic work undertaken.

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Australia Circumnavigated. The Voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator, 1801-1803 / Volume I

O autorze

Kenneth Morgan is Professor of History at Brunel University, UK, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His recent publications include Australia: A Very Short Introduction (2012), Matthew Flinders: Maritime Explorer of Australia (2015).