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Matthew Flinders' narrative of his voyage in the schooner Francis, 1798 : preceded and followed by notes on Flinders, Bass, the wreck of the Sidney Cove, &c. / by Geoffrey Rawson, with engravings by John Buckland Wright.
Record no.:
6455
Author:
Flinders, Matthew, 1774-1814.;
Bass, George, -1812?;
Rawson, Geoffrey.;
Publisher:
[London] :: Golden Cockerel Press,
Year:
1946.
Description:
100 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Subject:
Australia - Discovery and exploration.;
Notes:
Printed from the original manuscript, in the Victoria Public Library, which has title: Narrative of an expedition to Furneaux Islands on the coast of New South Wales. "Bass's journal of the whaleboat voyage": pages 29-43Noel Dan
Gift ;
2023.
Type:
Monograph
Abstract:
The introduction. -- The early life of Matthew Flinders. -- Naval influence on the early history of Australia. -- George Bass. -- Bass and Franklin. -- Consideration of Bass's boat voyage. -- Bass's journal of the whaleboat voyage. -- The voyage of the
Sydney Cove. -- The shipwreck of the Sydney Cove. -- The adventures of the Sydney Cove's longboat party. -- Coal and trade. -- Foreword to Flinders' narrative. -- Flinders' narrative. -- Circumnavigation of Australia in the Investigator. -- Flinders' account of the wreck of the Porpoise and the Cato. -- Flinders' voyage in the Cumberland. -- Flinders' captivity, release, publications, and death,
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