King of the Australian Coast: The Work of Phillip Parker King in the Mermaid and Bathurst 1817-1822 de Marsden Hordern - 2003-04-01

Melbourne Univ Pr, 2004. Paperback. New. 468 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. Phillip Parker King is Australia's third great hydrographer. Boy hero of the Napoleonic Wars, naval officer, explorer, hydrographer, administrator, astronomer, geologist, artist, writer and pastoralist, King was also the first native-born Australian to achieve flag rank in the Navy.

Melbourne University Publishing. Very Good+. 2002. Reprint. Paperback. 052285043X . Edges and endpapers lightly foxed. Corners lightly rubbed. Spine lightly creased; 6.7 X 1.21 X 8.66 inches; 496 pages .

Melbourne University Press, 2002. Softcover. FINE!. BOATS Maritime Australiana An absorbing and masterly account of Australia's third great hydrographer, Phillip Parker King.Phillip Parker King has been described as the greatest of Australia's early marine surveyors. But while the achievements of Cook and Flinders are widely known, this is the first telling of King's story.Unlike Cook and Flinders, King was Australian-born—the son of Philip Gidley King, governor of New South Wales. In a series of gruelling voyages between 1817 and 1822, King charted most of the north-west coast of Australia from the eastern tip of Arnhem Land all the way round to Cape Leeuwin and King George Sound. He surveyed Macquarie Harbour in Van Diemen's Land and the treacherous waters inside the Great Barrier Reef, filling gaps in the work of his famous predecessors.Marsden Hordern, a splendid storyteller, creates for the reader a sense of following, engrossed, in King's wake. The hazards of reefs, shoals and tides are… Leer más

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