Alas, for the Pelicans: Flinders, Baudin & Beyond : Essays and Poems
- ISBN-10
- 1862546037
- ISBN-13
- 9781862546035
- Category
- South Australia
- Pages
- 221
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Wakefield Press
- Author
- Anne Chittleborough
Description
In 1802 a Frenchman and an Englishman famously encountered each other off the shores of South Australia. The voyages of discovery of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders opened the way for the increasingly rapid colonisation of 'Terra Australis'.
Get the book
Similar books
-
Pelican
By Barbara Allen... Alas, for the pelicans! Their golden age is past; but it has much exceeded in duration that of man. Inamed this piece of water, Pelican Lagoon.1 The golden days of the pelican have, for the most part, disappeared, as human populations ...
-
Navigating by the Southern Cross: A History of the European Discovery and Exploration of Australia
By Kenneth Morgan47; Dennis Reinhartz, 'William Dampier and the Wreck of the Roebuck off Ascension Island in 1701,' Terrae Incognitae, ... 59 Adrian Mitchell, Dampier's Monkey: The South Seas Voyages of William Dampier Including William Dampier's ...
-
Incredible Survival Stories: Tales of Death-Defying Treks across the Globe
By Jay CassellWith more than three dozen photographs and illustrations that help bring these astounding tales to life, Incredible Survival Stories is a must-have for every armchair adventurer and aspiring explorer.
-
Grasmere 2013
By Richard GravilI should much wish, like the Indian Vishna, to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos, ... (CL, I:349) John Drew, in his important India and the Romantic Imagination (1987) has observed that these ...
-
Literature and Truth: Imaginative Writing as a Medium for Ideas
By Richard Lansdown... pelican, on islets in Nepean Bay: Flocks of old birds were sitting upon the beaches of the lagoon, and it appeared that ... Alas, for the pelicans! Their golden age is past; but it has much exceeded in duration that of man.35 Generally ...
-
Ill-starred Captains: Flinders and Baudin
By Anthony J. BrownHamelin sailed an hour later , but not before he had been visited by the schooner's captain , Lieutenant Robbins , and a companion whom he recognised as Surveyor General Charles Grimes from Sydney . Their news was unsettling ...
-
Terra Australis: Text Classics: Matthew Flinders' Great Adventures in the Circumnavigation of Australia
By Tim Flannery, Matthew FlindersIn this edited selection of his journals, Matthew Flinders, Australia’s greatest navigator and the man who named our island continent, describes in captivating detail his epic mission to map our shores between 1796 and 1803.
-
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders: in large print
By Ernest Scott... Pelican Lagoon have a tinting of poetic feeling which we do not often find in his solid pages: "Flocks of the old ... Alas, for the pelicans! their golden age is past; but it has much exceeded in duration that of man." The picture of ...