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SECOND HAND BOOK
The Hakluyt Society
Australia Circumnavigated: The Voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator, 1801-1803 Volume I and II
Third Series No. 28 and No. 29
Edited by Kenneth Morgan.
This two-volume work provides the first edited publication of Matthew Flinders’ journals from the circumnavigation of Australia in 1801-1803 in HMS Investigator, and of the ’Memoir’ he wrote to accompany his journals and charts. The journals edited here comprise a daily log with full nautical information and ’remarks’ on the coastal landscape, the achievements of previous navigators in Australian waters, encounters with Aboriginal Australians and Macassan trepangers, naval routines, scientific findings, and Flinders’ surveying and charting. The journals also include instructions for the voyage and some additional correspondence. The ’Memoir’ explains Flinders’ methodology in compiling his journals and charts and the purpose and content of his surveys.
Hardcover, 560pp total, 2015.
Condition: Excellent, original dust jackets included.
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