Author
Matthew Flinders
1774-1814
Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) is a public-domain author available on Rivro. Read free books, explore subjects, and discover related classics.
WikipediaBooks by Matthew Flinders
A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 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
"A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1" by Matthew Flinders is a sea voyage journal published in 1814. It chronicles Flinders' historic circumnavigation of Australia aboard HMS Investigator from 1801 to 1803, proving for the first time that Australia was a single continent. The work details unknown coastlines with maps and drawings, and recounts his subsequent six-year imprisonment by the French on Mauritius. Flinders died the day after publication, leaving behind this essential record of early Australian exploration.
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
"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.