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
A comprehensive new study by leading historian Kenneth Morgan looking at the European exploration and discovery in Australia.
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.
In charting the European maritime exploration of Australia,
Navigating by the Southern Cross takes us on a fascinating and
meticulously researched voyage of historical discovery. Informed by
the latest scholarship and drawing on an impressively wide range of
sources, Kenneth Morgan’s account alerts us to the multinational
nature of maritime exploration, information gathering, and
knowledge production in this process. The book succeeds in
combining the stories of individual voyages of exploration – as
well as the strengths and weaknesses, foibles and eccentricities,
of their leaders – with the history of technological advances and
the scientific approaches that informed much of this work.
Navigating by the Southern Cross offers an erudite, authoritative,
and richly textured account, which will appeal to anyone interested
in maritime history, the history of exploration, or the history of
the great southern land that came to be known as Australia.
*John McAleer, Associate Professor of History, University of
Southampton, UK*
Kenneth Morgan offers an accessible and well constructed compendium
of the latest research on the history of European maritime
exploration of Australia. Facts are laid bare, supported by
documentary evidence in abundance; the individual contributions of
nations are woven into a multilayered narrative; myths and
controversies are thoughtfully broached; and innovative practice in
cartography, anthropology and the natural sciences is
systematically highlighted. Morgan skilfully plots the collective
course pursued by European thinkers, adventurers and mariners over
many centuries, from the concept of Terra Australis Incognita to
the landmass that is Australia. A most worthy addition to the
libraries of maritime historians, students and the general reader
alike.
*Jean Fornasiero, Emerita Professor, University of Adelaide,
Australia*
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