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Cargando... Flinders: The Man Who Mapped Australiapor Rob Mundle
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I found this book eminently readable and I am full of admiration of the strength and resilience of sailors in coping with the adversity flung at them by nature. I now need to research who were the convicts allocated to Flinders. ( ) The name of Matthew Flinders is relatively well known in Australia because of his circumnavigation of Australia, his role in naming the land mass, and because of a few landmarks that bear his name. Rob Mundle has written a very informative biography of Flinders. That he is a sailor of some reputation is obvious by his close attention to the details of the ship, the rigging, navigation and crew. A historian would in most cases overlook the relevance of these. But not being written by a historian, the book does lack the usual reference to source material. New facts for me were the reasons why Flinders was imprisoned for many years on a small island in the Indian Ocean. And that two Frenchmen that continue to have major landmarks named after them were spying on the young colony of New South Wales. I missed much of a discussion of his legacy, and even his funeral is not mentioned. However, a very interesting book of one of the most influential explorers in history, sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Matthew Flinders is a towering figure in Australian history the first to chart our coastline and the leading champion for naming the country Australia. In 1801 he was made commander of the expedition of his life the first close circumnavigation of Terra Australis. Famous for his meticulous charts and superb navigational skills, Flinders was a bloody good sailor. He battled treacherous conditions in a boat hardly seaworthy, faced the loss of a number of his crewmen and, following a shipwreck on a reef off the Queensland coast, navigated the ship s cutter over 1000 kilometres back to Sydney to get help. Rob Mundle brings Matthew Flinders fascinating story to life from the heroism and drama of shipwreck, imprisonment and long voyages in appalling conditions, to the heartbreak of being separated from his beloved wife for most of their married life. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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