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Terra Australis: Matthew Flinders' Great Adventures in the Circumnavigation of Australia

By Matthew Flinders

Book information

Publisher
The Text Publishing Company
Year
2012
ISBN
9781921799389, 9781876485924
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
559 kB (572818 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-04 22:12:20
History; Nonfiction; POL010000

Description

First published in two-volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name. Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, Terra Australis is a vital step toward a new understanding of our own history. Flinders tells of meeting and communicating with Aborigines, of the scrub and wilderness. His descriptions of the difficulties that he and his sailors faced still bristle with energy and immediacy two hundred years later. This is Flinders' story in his own words, neglected until now, but destined to be eagerly read by all ages. 'Tim Flannery takes a part of Australian history that has meant numbing boredom to generations of schoolchildren and pummels it into robust and tragicomic shape.' Bulletin

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