Matthew Flinders navigator and chartmaker
Ingleton, Geoffrey1986
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Main title:
Matthew Flinders navigator and chartmaker / by Geoffrey Ingleton
Author:
Imprint:
Surrey Genesis 1986
Collation:
467 p. illustrations maps
Contents:
Matthew Flinder's boyhood - Tuition in the Providence - Expeience at sea 1793-1798 - Flinders begins chartmaking - Sea rivalry in the Antipodes - Fitting out for the investigator's voyage - The voyal to New Holland - The fortunate part of the voyage - Refit and recuperation at Port Jackson - The perilous north-eastern survey - A tedious northern survey with a lamentable end to the voyage - The turns of fortune - Cumberland and captivity - Baudin's voyage concluded - Detention at the Ile de France - Internment lingers on - Flinders yearns to escape - Freedom at last - Frustration and fruition - Last years, death and after events - H.M. Sloop Investigator - Hydrographic and scientific instructions; Captain's standing orders - Flinders' original manuscript charts - Flinders' published charts
ISBN:
0904351343 (hbk)
Dewey class:
994.02 MAT
Local class:
994.02
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
102950
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Reference | 994.02 MAT | Not for loan (Set: 10 Feb 2016) |
| St Marys | Reference | 994.02 MAT | Not for loan (Set: 10 Feb 2016) |