Description
Author: Geoffrey C Ingleton
Format: Hardback
Imprint: Genesis Publications
ISBN: 9780949104014
Co-published by Hedley Australia in an edition of 2,000 copies this monumental book of over 500 pages features a massive 400,000 word text on Flinder’s life and career, including his early coastal explorations and meritorious contributions to the foundation of Australian hydrography,as well as his long detention in the Ile de France (Mauritius) as ordered by Napoleon Bonaparte.
It took the author Geoffrey C Ingleton, Lieutenant Commander Royal Australian Navy, seven years to research and write this definitive life of Matthew Flinders.
Over 250 black and white text illustrations, many reconstructed by the author.
Detailed appendices of persons,ships and general.
Sixteen full colour reproductions of contemporary paiintings, two portraits, six natural history subjects by Ferdinand Bauer and eight views by William Westall.
Sixteen black and white plates of Flinder’s original manuscript charts and of views, portraits and instruments.
Four valuable appendices on the Investigator, the Admiralty instructions and the complete lists of Flinder’s original manuscript and published charts.
A coloured frontispiece by Geoffrey C Ingleton of the encounter between the Investigator and the French ship Le Geographe.
A decorative cloth-cased edition.
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