Discoveries in Australia - With an Account of Hitherto Unknown Coasts Surveyed During Voyage of

Klappentext An 1846 account by an officer of H.M.S. Beagle of a six-year expedition to survey the coast of Australia. Zusammenfassung John Lort Stokes (1812–85) was an officer on H.M.S. Beagle - the ship that had carried naturalist Charles Darwin. The ship's next commission was a survey of Australia, which lasted nearly six years, and Stokes published a two-volume account of it in 1846. Volume 2 explores the Victoria River. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Leave Port Essington; 2. Exploration of the Victoria; 3. Victoria River; 4. Victoria River to Swan River; 5. Sail from Swan River; 6. Sail from Rottee; 7. Land sales; 8. Gulf of Carpentaria; 9. Gulf of Carpentaria; 10. Indian archipelago; 11. Post Essington and the N.W. Coast; 12. Reported harbour; 13. Exploration of interior; 14. Australia to England; Appendix.

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• Authors: John Lort Stokes
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.09.2011
• EAN: 9781108032728
• ISBN: 978-1-108-03272-8
• No. of pages: 588
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania; Discoveries in Australia 2 Volume Set
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Australia, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure, Expeditions, TRAVEL / Australia & Oceania, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Expeditions: popular accounts, Geographical discovery & exploration, Australasian & Pacific history, Geographical discovery and exploration, Australasian and Pacific history