Encountering Terra Australis
$60
By Jean Fortasiero, Peter Monteath & John West-Sooby
In-depth study of the voyages of Matthew Flinders & Nicolas Baudin around Australia
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Description
- Subtitled: The Australian Voyages Of Nicolas Baudin & Matthew Flinders
- First Edition [Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2004]; 412 pages; blue cloth boards, gold titling to spine & front, fine copy; in the excellent illustrated dustjacket, barely discernible fade to spine
- Copious illustrations, maps, etc
- Traces the separate voyages of Flinders & Baudin [unusually focussing on the latter] as they traced the Australian coastline
- Winner of the Frank Broeze Maritime History Prize
- ISBN: 1 86254 625 8 / 1862546258