Book. Matthew Flinders Circumnavigation of Australia, Terra Australis. Matthew Flinders' Great Adventures

by Flannery, Tim

Terra Australis. Great Adventures in the Circumnavigation of Australia by Matthew Flinders. Edited and Introduced by Tim Flannery.
Paperback with pictorial cover by Text Publishing, Melbourne Australia. First published 2000. Second edition 2001. This edition, reprinted 2001.

ISBN 1 876485 92 .  200 x 130 x 15mm (7.3/4 x 5.1/8 x 1 inch) Very slight soiling to edges of pages. Otherwise good condition.

Matthew Flinders is the man who gave Australia its name. "A Voyage to Terra Australis", first published in two volumes in 1814, is his masterwork in which he vividly describes his voyages to map the great island continent between 1796 and 1803.

Masterfully edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, this version includes the journey Flinders made with George Bass to prove that Tasmania is an island, his herculean voyage in the Investigator circumnavigating Australia, and his account of the wreck of the Porpoise. Flinders writes about his meetings with Aborigines, his encounters with French explorers and Macassan fishing fleets, and about the unforgettable wilderness of Australia.

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