Book Description
In this edited selection of his journals, Matthew Flinders, Australia’s greatest navigator and the man who named our island continent, describes in captivating detail his epic mission to map our shores between 1796 and 1803.
Author : Matthew Flinders
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 45,61 MB
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1921961015
In this edited selection of his journals, Matthew Flinders, Australia’s greatest navigator and the man who named our island continent, describes in captivating detail his epic mission to map our shores between 1796 and 1803.
Author : Glyndwr Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 34,74 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN :
How Europeans conceived of the southern continent from ancient times until the beginning of the 19th century, the charting of the coastline and the naming of Australia.
Author : Jean Fornasiero
Publisher : Wakefield Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1862548749
Encountering Terra Australis traces the parallel lives and voyages of the explorers Flinders and Baudin, as they travelled to Australia and explored the coastline of mainland Australia and Tasmania. Unusually, the book takes its lead from the voyages of Baudin, rather than Flinders. Furthermore the authors have sourced original accounts including material which has never before been available in English. Extensively illustrated in colour and black and white.
Author : Matthew Flinders
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,29 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Australia
ISBN :
Author : Robert Clancy
Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 30,52 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Reference
ISBN :
A guide to early printed maps of Australia, Antarctica and the South Pacific.
Author : Matthew Flinders
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 20,30 MB
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752361417
Reproduction of the original: A Voyage To Terra Australis by Matthew Flinders
Author : Laurent-Frederic Bollée
Publisher : SelfMadeHero
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 26,34 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9781906838751
The definitive account of the birth of Australia
Author : Richard H. Major
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 1859
Category : Australia
ISBN :
Author : Simon Haberle
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 36,34 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1921862726
"This volume brings together a collection of papers from a diverse field of international scholars exploring the multiple ways that East Timorese communities are making and remaking their connections to land and places of ancestral significance. The work is explicitly comparative and highlights the different ways Timorese language communities negotiate access and transactions in land, disputes and inheritance especially in areas subject to historical displacement and resettlement. Consideration is extended to the role of ritual performance and social alliance for inscribing connection and entitlement. Emerging through analysis is an appreciation of how relations to land, articulated in origin discourses, are implicated in the construction of national culture and differential contributions to the struggle for independence."--Publisher's description.
Author : Miriam Estensen
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 38,35 MB
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1741760860
In October 1606, the great Spanish navigator Luis Vaes de Torres took two vessels through the waters that divide the land masses of New Guinea and Australia. In a journey of great adventure, courage and hardship, he was the first European to sail through today's Torres Strait and very possibly the first European to sight the east coast of Australia. Terra Australis Incognita focuses new light on the Spanish voyages of discovery that sailed from South America into the unknown south western Pacific in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Crossing the planet's largest ocean in small wooden ships with rudimentary navigation, these Spanish conquistadors were in search of the legendary Great South Land first imagined by the ancient Greeks. This is a story of passionate beliefs, of high hopes and catastrophic failures, of attempted colonies that ended in death and disaster, of violent confrontations and tentative friendship with indigenous people, of a fierce clash of cultures, and relentless ambition in search of the gold of King Solomon's Ophir. It is also the story of the visionary adventurer Quiros who planned a New Jerusalem in today's Vanuatu, the ruthless woman governor Dona Isabel, the Solomon Islander chief Bilebanarra who was a friend of the Spaniards and, of course, the great leader of men Luis Vaes de Torres. Terra Australis Incognita is a thoroughly researched, lucidly written and unique narrative on the little known history of the great Spanish explorations of the Pacific Ocean.