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  • The Life of George Bass

    Surgeon and sailor of the Enlightenment

    par Miriam Estensen ...
    On 5 February 1802, the 142-ton brig Venus cleared Sydney heads to begin a trading voyage through the islands of the Pacific. On board as captain was one of her owners, the surgeon, navigator, adventurer and now entrepreneur George Bass. Neither Bass nor the Venus completed the voyage. They simply vanished into the Pacific. The questions are many. Was the Venus wrecked on the coast of New Zealand? ... En savoir plus

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  • The Life of Matthew Flinders

    par Miriam Estensen ...
    'In Estensen, Flinders has at last found his Boswell.' Paul Brunton, The Weekend AustralianEstensen's book is a work of painstaking scholarship, worn lightly it will be an enduring contribution to Australian history.' Gillian Dooley, Australian Book ReviewEstensen gives us the ups and downs of the man in the commander's jacket. She has taken an 18th century mariner and made a 21st century man of ... En savoir plus

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  • Terra Australis Incognita

    The Spanish Quest for the mysterious Great South Land

    par Miriam Estensen ...
    In October 1606, the great Spanish navigator Luis Vaes de Torres took two vessels through the waters that divide the land masses of New Guinea and Australia. In a journey of great adventure, courage and hardship, he was the first European to sail through today's Torres Strait and very possibly the first European to sight the east coast of Australia.Terra Australis Incognita focuses new light on ... En savoir plus

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  • The Letters of George and Elizabeth Bass

    par Miriam Estensen ...
    In August 1800, George Bass returned to England after five years in the British colony of New South Wales. Gifted, ambitious and impatient with the limitations of a naval career, he took leave from the navy to purchase a ship of his own and organise a commercial venture to Sydney. He also met Elizabeth Waterhouse, and fell very much in love. They were married on 8 October 1800. On 9 January 1801, ... En savoir plus

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  • The Lucky Country: Popular Penguins

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    'Australia is a lucky country, run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck.'First published in 1964 The Lucky Country caused a sensation. The book was a wake-up call to an unimaginative nation, an indictment of a country mired in mediocrity and manacled to its past.Popular PenguinsHe just wanted a decent book to read . . .Not too much to ask, was it? It was in 1935 when Allen Lane stood on ... En savoir plus

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    Voyage of the Beagle chronicles Charles Darwin's five years as a naturalist on board the H.M.S. Beagle. The notes and observations that he recorded in his diary included Chile, Argentina and Galapagos Islands and encompasses the ecology, geology and anthropology of the places he visits. A fascinating travel memoir the ideas that were later to evolve into Darwin's theory of natural selection find ... En savoir plus

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  • Abandoned Women: Scottish convicts exiled beyond the seas

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  • Elephant Company

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  • Four Mums in a Boat

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