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Matthew Flinders, Maritime Explorer of Australia 1st Edition

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Matthew Flinders, Maritime Explorer of Australia 1st Edition

Author(s)

Kenneth Morgan

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781441149107, 9781350049406, 9781441179623

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

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PDF and EPUB

Description

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.

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Matthew Flinders, Maritime Explorer of Australia 1st Edition

SKU: 9781441122698

Original price was: $43.15.Current price is: $12.94.

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Additional information

Full Title

Matthew Flinders, Maritime Explorer of Australia 1st Edition

Author(s)

Kenneth Morgan

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781441122698, 9781350049406, 9781441179623

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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.