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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), Flind

Author

Flinders, Matthew, 1774-1814, author; Morgan, Kenneth, 1953- editor; Hakluyt Society

Publisher

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT: Published by Ashgate for the Hakluyt Society, London

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781908145116

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography