Name: Discoveries in Australia 2 Volume Set: Discoveries in Australia: With an Account of the Hitherto Unknown Coasts Surveyed During the Voyage of the hms. Library Collection - History of Oceania) (en Inglés)
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Author: Stokes, John Lort
ISBN: 9781108032728

portada Discoveries in Australia 2 Volume Set: Discoveries in Australia: With an Account of the Hitherto Unknown Coasts Surveyed During the Voyage of the hms. Library Collection - History of Oceania) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

John Lort Stokes

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Año

2011

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

588

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.6 x 14.0 x 3.3 cm

Peso

0.73 kg.

ISBN

1108032729

ISBN13

9781108032728

Categorías

Australasia
Historia de australia y del pacífico
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Discoveries in Australia 2 Volume Set: Discoveries in Australia: With an Account of the Hitherto Unknown Coasts Surveyed During the Voyage of the hms. Library Collection - History of Oceania) (en Inglés)

John Lort Stokes (Autor) · Cambridge University Press · Tapa Blanda

Libro Físico

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John Lort Stokes (1812-85) was a naval officer on board H.M.S. Beagle - the same ship that had carried naturalist Charles Darwin around the world in 1831-6. Stokes served on that expedition and on the following commission, which was a survey of Australia in which the crew was charged with discovering more about the largely unknown land mass. The expedition set off in 1837 and Stokes did not return to England until 1843 - after 18 years of service on the Beagle - when he began work on this two-volume account of the voyage, which was published in 1846. This work provides a detailed narrative of the journey, including interaction with indigenous peoples and observations about the natural world in Australia, making it an important source about the early years of the European colony. Volume 2 sees the expedition explore the Victoria River, and later venture north into the Indonesian archipelago.