Miriam Estensen: 4 books
by Miriam Estensen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
'In Estensen, Flinders has at last found his Boswell.' Paul Brunton, The Weekend Australian
Estensen's book is a work of painstaking scholarship, worn lightly it will be an enduring contribution to Australian history.' Gillian Dooley, Australian Book Review
Estensen gives us the ups...
The Life of George Bass
Surgeon and sailor of the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
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...
Terra Australis Incognita
The Spanish Quest for the mysterious Great South Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
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...
by Miriam Estensen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
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...