Navigating by the Southern Cross

A History of the European Discovery and Exploration of Australia

Professor Kenneth Morgan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-15477-3 (ISBN)

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In this comprehensive study, Kenneth Morgan provides an authoritative account of European exploration and discovery in Australia. The book presents a detailed chronological overview of European interests in the Australian continent, from initial speculations about the ‘Great Southern Land’ to the major hydrographic expeditions of the 19th century. In particular, he analyses the early crossings of the Dutch in the 17th century, the exploits of English ‘buccaneer adventurer’ William Dampier, the famous voyages of James Cook and Matthew Flinders, and the little-known French annexation of Australia in 1772.

Introducing new findings and drawing on the latest in historiographical research, this book situates developments in navigation, nautical astronomy and cartography within the broader contexts of imperial, colonial, and maritime history.

Kenneth Morgan is a Professor of History at Brunel University, London, UK. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has served on the editorial board for the International Journal of Maritime History. His research and teaching interests include the British Atlantic world, maritime history, imperialism, slavery and abolitionism.

List of aAbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Terra Australis Incognita
2 Seventeenth-century Dutch Exploration
3 Tasman’s Voyages
4 From Tasman to Cook
5 Cook, the Endeavour and the East Coast
6 French Voyages to Terra Australis
7 English Voyages in the Age of Bligh and Vancouver
8 Flinders and the Investigator
9 Baudin’s Expedition
10 Phillip Parker King’s Australian Surveys
11 The Hydrographic Surveyors
Conclusion
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	24.02.2021
Zusatzinfo	45 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	667 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	1-350-15477-6 / 1350154776
ISBN-13	978-1-350-15477-3 / 9781350154773
Zustand	Neuware