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The Log of H.M.S. Providence 1791-1793
Author: William Bligh
Publisher:
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 951
ISBN-13: 9780904351019
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Log of H.M.S. Providence, 1791-1793
Thos. Walker's Log on Board H.M.S. Providence, Wm. Bligh, Esq., Comm
Author: Thomas Walker (master's mate.)
Publisher:
Published: 1791
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Voyage of the Plant Nursery, H.M.S. Providence, 1791-1793
OM71-34 William Bligh Log
Author: William Bligh
Publisher:
Published: 1791
Total Pages:
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Transcript of an official log kept by William Bligh aboard the Providence between 17 July 1791 and 6 September 1793. The log is titled "A Log of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Ship Providence on a Second Voyage to the South Sea under the Command of Captain William Bligh, to carry the Bread Fruit Plant from the Society Islands to the West Indies, written by Himself". The transcript is in a clerical hand and is signed by Bligh.
Matthew Flinders, Maritime Explorer of Australia
Author: Kenneth Morgan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-03-24
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 1441149104
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides a thoroughly researched biography of the naval career of Matthew Flinders, with particular emphasis on his importance for the maritime discovery of Australia. Sailing in the wake of the 18th-century voyages of exploration by Captain Cook and others, Flinders was the first naval commander to circumnavigate Australia's coastline. He contributed more to the mapping and naming of places in Australia than virtually any other single person. His voyage to Australia on H.M.S. Investigator expanded the scope of imperial, geographical and scientific knowledge. This biography places Flinders's career within the context of Pacific exploration and the early white settlement of Australia. Flinders's connections with other explorers, his use of patronage, the dissemination of his findings, and his posthumous reputation are also discussed in what is an important new scholarly work in the field.
Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands
Author: Max Quanchi
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2005-10-18
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0810865289
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The South Seas, as this region used to be called, conjured up images of adventure, belles and savages, romance and fabulous fortunes, but the long voyages of discovery and exploration of the vast Pacific Ocean were really an exercise in amazing logistics, navigation, hard grit, shipwreck and pure luck. The motivations were scientific and geographic, but at the same time nationalistic and materialistic. A series on global exploration and discovery would not be complete without this book by Quanchi and Robson. It is ambitious and informative and includes the familiar names of Laperouse, Bougainville, Cook and Dampier, as well as the intriguing stories of the Bounty Mutiny, scurvy, and the mysterious Northwest Passage, Terra Australis Ignotia and Davis Land. There are entries on first contacts, ships, navigational instruments, mapping, and botany. The scene is carefully set in the introduction, the chronology spans several centuries, and the extensive bibliography offers a guide to further reading. There are more than just dry facts in this book. It has a whiff of salt air, the clash of empires, cross-cultural beach encounters and personal adventure.
Facing Empire
Author: Kate Fullagar
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2018-11-01
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1421426560
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The Seaforth Bibliography
Author: Eugene Rasor
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2009-04-17
Total Pages: 951
ISBN-13: 1473812399
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This remarkable work is a comprehensive historiographical and bibliographical survey of the most important scholarly and printed materials about the naval and maritime history of England and Great Britain from the earliest times to 1815. More than 4,000 popular, standard and official histories, important articles in journals and periodicals, anthologies, conference, symposium and seminar papers, guides, documents and doctoral theses are covered so that the emphasis is the broadest possible. But the work is far, far more than a listing. The works are all evaluated, assessed and analysed and then integrated into an historical narrative that makes the book a hugely useful reference work for student, scholar, and enthusiast alike. It is divided into twenty-one chapters which cover resource centres, significant naval writers, pre-eminent and general histories, the chronological periods from Julius Caesar through the Vikings, Tudors and Stuarts to Nelson and Bligh, major naval personalities, warships, piracy, strategy and tactics, exploration, discovery and navigation, archaeology and even naval fiction. Quite simply, no-one with an interest and enthusiasm for naval history can afford to be without this book at their side.
