Matthew Flinders Maritime Explorer Of Australia

Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441149104
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matthew Flinders, Maritime Explorer of Australia written by Kenneth Morgan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a thoroughly researched biography of the naval career of Matthew Flinders, with particular emphasis on his importance for the maritime discovery of Australia. Sailing in the wake of the 18th-century voyages of exploration by Captain Cook and others, Flinders was the first naval commander to circumnavigate Australia's coastline. He contributed more to the mapping and naming of places in Australia than virtually any other single person. His voyage to Australia on H.M.S. Investigator expanded the scope of imperial, geographical and scientific knowledge. This biography places Flinders's career within the context of Pacific exploration and the early white settlement of Australia. Flinders's connections with other explorers, his use of patronage, the dissemination of his findings, and his posthumous reputation are also discussed in what is an important new scholarly work in the field.

Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351814400
Total Pages : 745 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australia Circumnavigated. The Voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator, 1801-1803 / Volume II written by Kenneth Morgan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume work provides the first edited publication of Matthew Flinders’s fair journals from the 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. Flinders was the first explorer to circumnavigate Australia. He was also largely responsible for giving Australia its name. His voyage was supported by the Admiralty, the Navy Board, the East India Company and the patronage of Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. Banks ensured that the Investigator expedition included scientific gentlemen to document Australia’s flora, fauna, geology and landscape features. The botanist Robert Brown, botanical painter Ferdinand Bauer, landscape artist William Westall and the gardener Peter Good were all members of the voyage. After landfall at Cape Leeuwin, Flinders sailed anti-clockwise round the whole continent, returning to Port Jackson when the ship became unseaworthy. After a series of misfortunes, including a shipwreck and a long detention at the Ile de France (now Mauritius), Flinders returned to England in 1810. He devoted the last four years of his life to preparing A Voyage to Terra Australis, published in two volumes, and an atlas. Flinders died on 19 July 1814 at the age of forty. The fair journals edited here comprise a daily log with full nautical information and ’remarks’ on the coastal landscape, the achievements of previous navigators in Australian waters, encounters with Aborigines and Macassan trepangers, naval routines, scientific findings, and Flinders’s surveying and charting. The journals also include instructions for the voyage and some additional correspondence. The ’Memoir’ explains Flinders’ methodology in compiling his journals and charts and the purpose and content of his surveys.

Author : KENNETH. MORGAN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032294315
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book AUSTRALIA CIRCUMNAVIGATED written by KENNETH. MORGAN and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rob Mundle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780733630422
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flinders written by Rob Mundle and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Flinders is a towering figure in Australian history - the first to chart our coastline and the leading champion for naming the country Australia. In 1801 he was made commander of the expedition of his life - the first close circumnavigation of Terra Australis. Famous for his meticulous charts and superb navigational skills, Flinders was a bloody good sailor. He battled treacherous conditions in a boat hardly seaworthy, faced the loss of a number of his crewmen and, following a shipwreck on a reef off the Queensland coast, navigated the ship's cutter over 1000 kilometres back to Sydney to get help. Rob Mundle brings Matthew Flinders' fascinating story to life - from the heroism and drama of shipwreck, imprisonment and long voyages in appalling conditions, to the heartbreak of being separated from his beloved wife for most of their married life. This is a gripping adventure biography, in the style of BLIGH: MASTER MARINER.

Author : Matthew Flinders
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 927 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Voyage to Terra Australis written by Matthew Flinders and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-19 with total page 927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Voyage to Terra Australis is a two-volume sea voyage journal written by English mariner and explorer Matthew Flinders. It describes his circumnavigation of the Australian continent in the early years of the 19th century, and his imprisonment by the French on the island of Mauritius from 1804–1810. The book tells in great detail of his explorations and included maps and drawings of the profiles of unknown coastline areas of what Flinders called "Terra Australis Incognita". By this, he was referring to the great unknown Southern continent that had been sighted and partly mapped by prominent earlier mariners such as Captain James Cook.

Author : Matthew Flinders
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Expedition through Bass's Strait written by Matthew Flinders and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bass Strait is a strait separating the island state of Tasmania from the Australian mainland (more specifically the coast of Victoria, except for the land border across Boundary Islet). Excerpt: "NARRATIVE of an Expedition in the Colonial sloop Norfolk, from Port Jackson, through the Strait which separates Van Diemen's Land from New Holland, and from thence round the South Cape back to Port Jackson, completing the circumnavigation of the former Island, with some remarks on the coasts and harbors, by Matthew Flinders, 2nd lt, H.M.S. Reliance.*"

Author : Kenneth Morgan, Dr
Publisher : Hakluyt Society
ISBN 13 : 9781032294285
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australia Circumnavigated. The Voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator, 1801-1803 / Volume I written by Kenneth Morgan, Dr and published by Hakluyt Society. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Sir Ernest Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. written by Sir Ernest Scott and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441122699
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matthew Flinders, Maritime Explorer of Australia written by Kenneth Morgan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a thoroughly researched biography of the naval career of Matthew Flinders, with particular emphasis on his importance for the maritime discovery of Australia. Sailing in the wake of the 18th-century voyages of exploration by Captain Cook and others, Flinders was the first naval commander to circumnavigate Australia's coastline. He contributed more to the mapping and naming of places in Australia than virtually any other single person. His voyage to Australia on H.M.S. Investigator expanded the scope of imperial, geographical and scientific knowledge. This biography places Flinders's career within the context of Pacific exploration and the early white settlement of Australia. Flinders's connections with other explorers, his use of patronage, the dissemination of his findings, and his posthumous reputation are also discussed in what is an important new scholarly work in the field.

Author : Sir Ernest Scott
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders written by Sir Ernest Scott and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a glimpse into Australian history and maritime exploration. The book also gives an account of the life and accomplishments of one of Australia's greatest navigators. It covers Flinders' Flemish origins, education, naval career, and his most significant contributions to Australian geography and exploration, including his circumnavigation of Tasmania and the discovery of Bass Strait. In this book, the author's meticulous research is evident in his descriptions of Flinders' voyages, including encounters with Aboriginal peoples and other explorers such as George Bass and the French navigator Nicolas Baudin. With portraits, maps, and facsimiles, this book provides a look at Flinders' life and legacy.