Navigating by the Southern Cross : the European discovery of Australia
Title:
Navigating by the Southern Cross : the European discovery of Australia
History of the European discovery and exploration of Australia
Author:
Morgan, Kenneth, 1953- author.
ISBN:
9781350154773
9781350214545
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Physical Description:
335 pages. : maps. ; 24cm
Contents:
Terra Australis Incognita -- Seventeenth-century Dutch Exploration -- Tasman's Voyages -- From Tasman to Cook -- Cook, the Endeavour and the East Coast -- French Voyages to Terra Australis -- English Voyages in the Age of Bligh and Vancouver -- Flinders and the Investigator -- Baudin's Expedition -- Phillip Parker King's Australian Surveys -- The Hydrographic Surveyors.
Abstract:
"In this comprehensive new study, leading historian Kenneth Morgan provides an authoritative account of European exploration and discovery in Australia. Introducing new findings and drawing on the latest in historiographical research, this book situates developments in navigation, nautical astronomy and cartography within the broader contexts of imperial, colonial and maritime history"-- Provided by publisher.
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Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805:
npmlib 南院 DU97 .M97 stc 11120743