The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N.
Author : Sir Ernest Scott
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Page : 640 pages
File Size : 49,60 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Australia
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Author : Sir Ernest Scott
Publisher :
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 49,60 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Australia
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Author : Sir Ernest Scott
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 24,30 MB
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Fiction
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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.
Author : Ernest Scott
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 48,16 MB
Release : 2023-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368364766
Reproduction of the original.
Author : Ernest Scott
Publisher : Publio Kiadó Kft.
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
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Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9633971535
Matthew Flinders was the third of the triad of great English sailors by whom the principal part of Australia was revealed. A poet of our own time, in a line of singular felicity, has described it as the "last sea-thing dredged by sailor Time from Space; "* (* Bernard O'Dowd, Dawnward, 1903.) and the piecemeal, partly mysterious, largely accidental dragging from the depths of the unknown of a land so immense and bountiful makes a romantic chapter in geographical history. All the great seafaring peoples contributed something towards the result. The Dutch especially evinced their enterprise in the pursuit of precise information about the southern Terra Incognita, and the nineteenth century was well within its second quarter before the name New Holland, which for over a hundred years had borne testimony to their adventurous pioneering, gave place in general and geographical literature to the more convenient and euphonious designation suggested by Flinders himself, Australia.* (* Not universally, however, even in official documents. In the Report of the Committee of the Privy Council, dated May 1, 1849, "New Holland" is used to designate the continent, but "Australia" is employed as including both the continent and Tasmania. See Grey's Colonial Policy 1 424 and 439.)
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Publisher : ICON Group International
Page : pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
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Author : Joseph Bryant
Publisher : London : Epworth Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 23,89 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Australia
ISBN :
Author : Ruth Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 2020-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781912678242
Does Matthew Flinders find fame and fortune? This intrepid explorer was the first man to chart the coast of Australia in 1801 accompanied by his mischievous but faithful cat, Trim. Faced with a leaking ship, stormy seas, sickness and an unknown land, Matthew and Trim overcame every obstacle, until they were finally shipwrecked on the Great Barrier Reef. Saved, they sailed on to Mauritius, only to be imprisoned by the French as spies. What was to become of them?
Author : Ernest Scott
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 2003-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781404388291
Author : Matthew Flinders
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Page : 27 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 1912
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Author : Ernest Scott
Publisher :
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 42,88 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Australia
ISBN :
Detailing the life, accomplishments, battles and legacy of Captain Matthew Flinders, this volume was written by Sir Ernest Scott, a prominent historian and professor at the University of Melbourne in 1913. A great navigator and cartographer, Captain Matthew Flinders is a prominent figure in Australian history as he was the first to circumnavigate the continent and identify it as such. He is also credited with identifying Tasmania as an island, finding the Bass Strait and mapping the coastline of Australia (then New Holland), including the all-important Port Phillip, present-day Melbourne.