Download or read book Observations on the Coasts of Van Diemen s Land written by Matthew Flinders and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Observations on the Coasts of Van Diemen's Land" is a historical account of the exploration of the Australian continent created by Captain Matthew Flinders, a British navigator, and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia. The expeditions started from Port Jackson and aimed to explore the neighboring lands.
Download or read book Observations on the Coasts of Van Diemen s Land written by Matthew Flinders and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australian Rare Books 1788 1900 written by Jonathan Wantrup and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a demonstration of the richness, worth and vitality of Australian documentary record. At the same time, it is an introduction to collecting Australiana for those who, if not already bitten by the book bug, have been dangerously exposed to it. Readers who are immune to the attractions of collecting but who value our past and its books will also find something to interest them in the following pages.
Download or read book Matthew Flinders Maritime Explorer of Australia written by Kenneth Morgan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a thoroughly researched biography of the naval career of Matthew Flinders, with particular emphasis on his importance for the maritime discovery of Australia. Sailing in the wake of the 18th-century voyages of exploration by Captain Cook and others, Flinders was the first naval commander to circumnavigate Australia's coastline. He contributed more to the mapping and naming of places in Australia than virtually any other single person. His voyage to Australia on H.M.S. Investigator expanded the scope of imperial, geographical and scientific knowledge. This biography places Flinders's career within the context of Pacific exploration and the early white settlement of Australia. Flinders's connections with other explorers, his use of patronage, the dissemination of his findings, and his posthumous reputation are also discussed in what is an important new scholarly work in the field.
Download or read book Sketch of the History of Van Diemen s Land written by James Bischoff and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The First Wave written by Gillian Dooley and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European maritime explorers who first visited the bays and beaches of Australia brought with them diverse assumptions about the inhabitants of the country, most of them based on sketchy or non-existent knowledge, contemporary theories like the idea of the noble savage, and an automatic belief in the superiority of European civilisation. Mutual misunderstanding was almost universal, whether it resulted in violence or apparently friendly transactions. Written for a general audience, The First Wave brings together a variety of contributions from thought-provoking writers, including both original research and creative work. Our contributors explore the dynamics of these early encounters, from Indigenous cosmological perspectives and European history of ideas, from representations in art and literature to the role of animals, food and fire in mediating first contact encounters, and Indigenous agency in exploration and shipwrecks. The First Wave includes poetry by Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal poet Ali Cobby Eckermann, fiction by Miles Franklin award-winning Noongar author Kim Scott and Danielle Clode, and an account of the arrival of Christian missionaries in the Torres Strait Islands by Torres Strait political leader George Mye.
Download or read book The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery written by J.C. Beaglehole and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 1293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On his second expedition to the Pacific, in the years 1772-5, Captain James Cook made a voyage which, in the annals of exploration, is unsurpassed for grandeur of design and execution and for variety of experience. Cook traversed the Indian and Pacific Oceans in high latitudes, demonstrating that the supposed Southern continent could not extend north of 60°. Cook three times crossed the Antarctic Circle reaching his furthest south in 71° 10 ́, and he proved himself a master of navigation in ice. In the Pacific his discoveries or rediscoveries included the Tonga Islands, Easter Island, the Marquesas, the New Hebrides and New Caledonia, with the sub-antarctic islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich group. Captain Furneaux, commanding the consort ship, examined the coasts of Tasmania. The written and graphic records left by Cook himself and by his officers, by the astronomer William Wales and the artist William Hodges, by the naturalists J.R. and George Forster are remarkable in their volume and vitality. The editor, Dr J.C. Beaglehole, here prints the full text of Cook’s own journal, constructed from two holograph MSS and several MS copies, and a great part of Wales’s journal. This facsimile edition reprints the edition of 1961 along with the Addenda and Corrigenda published in 1969. The illustrations originally in colour are reproduced in black-and-white, the fold-outs divided to fit on separate pages, and the volume split into two parts.
Download or read book Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen s Land written by Sir Paul Edmund de Strzelecki and published by London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. This book was released on 1845 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Westeren Coasts of Australia Performed Between the Years 1818 and 1822 with an Appendix written by Philip Parker King and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed Between the Years 1818 and 1822 written by Phillip Parker King and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1827 two-volume work describes the Royal Navy's 1817-22 surveying expedition to chart the coastal regions of Australia.
Download or read book Journal and Proceedings written by Royal Australian Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Society's Annual report and statement of accounts.
Download or read book Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia written by Philip Parker King and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hawaiian National Bibliography 1780 1900 written by David W. Forbes and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive, annotated, multivolume bibliography is a record of all printed works touching on some aspect of the political, religious, cultural, or social history of the Hawaiian Islands-from the first printed notice mentioning the Islands (in a German periodical of January 1780) to the beginning of the twentieth century, when the Islands ceased to be a separate political entity. Volume I covers the period from 1780 to 1830, when exploratory voyages to the northern Pacific had largely concluded and the arrival of improved printing equipment in the Islands resulted in a substantial increase in the number of works printed by the Mission Press in Honolulu. In addition to books and pamphlets, the bibliography includes newspaper and periodical accounts and single sheet publications such as broadsides, circulars, playbills, and handbills because they often contain the only eyewitness or contemporary description of an important event or individual. Entries pertaining to Captain Cook's Third Voyage dominate the first twenty years of the bibliography. They reflect the profound impact of the voyage on both the Hawaiian culture and on nineteenth-century European thought. Extensive annotations provide a brief summary of approximately 760 published works in the first volume of the bibliography. All known editions of each work are listed, together with the exact title, date of publication, size of the volume, collation of pages, number and type of plates and maps, references, and location of copies. The bibliography will be invaluable to scholars, librarians, rare book sellers, and book collectors within the field of Hawaiiana.
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