A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 by Matthew Flinders
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"A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2" by Matthew Flinders is a sea voyage journal published in 1814. This volume continues Flinders' detailed account of his historic circumnavigation of Australia between 1801 and 1803 aboard HMS Investigator. The narrative chronicles his mapping of unknown coastlines and his quest to prove Australia was a single continent. It also recounts his subsequent shipwreck and six-year imprisonment by the French on Mauritius, before his
eventual return to England in poor health. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Flinders, Matthew, 1774-1814 |
|---|---|
| Title |
A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Voyage_to_Terra_Australis |
| Credits | This eBook was produced by Col Choat |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 58.7 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | DU: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: History of Oceania (South Seas) |
| LoC Class | G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation |
| Subject | Voyages and travels |
| Subject | Australia -- Discovery and exploration |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 13121 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-13121-4 |
| Release Date | Aug 6, 2004 |
| Last Update | Oct 28, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 302 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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