VAN DIEMEN'S LAND REVEALED. Flinders and Bass and their circumnavigation of the island in the colonial sloop Norfolk, 1798-1799.
Pp. x+228+[2](colophon, verso blank), frontispiece plus 12 plates, 3 large folding charts (1 coloured) in pocket at end, pictorial free endpapers, bibliography, index; tall cr. 4to; dark blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper; Blubber Head Press, Hobart, 2009. First trade edition, limited to 750 copies. *'Matthew Flinders and George Bass have been given considerable recognition in publications relating to their lives and achievements. One major exploit - their successful circumnavigation of Van Diemen's Land in 1798 and 1799 in the sloop Norfolk, which established beyond doubt the existence of Bass Strait and that Van Diemen's Land was an island - has been overlooked to the extent that no separate work brings together source material relating to the voyage . . . [This book] presents original accounts written by the two adventurers, together with commentary, notes and references, bibliography and index. A facsimile of Flinders's most rare pamphlet Observations on the Coasts of Van Diemen's Land, on Bass's Strait and its Islands, and on part of the Coasts of New South Wales, published in London in 1801, together with copies of the three important charts which it was intended to append to this pamphlet, are also reproduced' [wrapper blurb]. Item #166301
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