A voyage to New Holland and round the world : for the purpose of transporting convicts thither and r...
A voyage to New Holland and round the world : for the purpose of transporting convicts thither and r...
A voyage to New Holland and round the world : for the purpose of transporting convicts thither and returning with ship timbers, with observations on the mutinous state of New South Wales and the superiority of New Zealand for settlement / undertaken and performed by Captain James Colnett of the Royal Navy, in HMS Glatton during the years 1802 and 1803 ; introduced and edited by G. Allen Mawer.
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Publisher
Kenthurst, NSW : Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd, 2016.
[Kenthurst, New South Wales] Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd, 2016.
Date
2016.
Call Numbers
H 2016/2678
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Language
English
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Physical content
112 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour), portraits (some colour), facsimilies ; 23 cm.
Content type
text
still image
cartographic image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Voyage Round the World in HMS Glatton -- I Preparations for the Voyage to New South Wales -- II Passage from England to Rio Janeiro -- III Remarks on Proceedings at Rio Janeiro -- IV Passage from Rio Janeiro to Gough Island -- V Passage from Gough Island to New Holland -- VI Remarks on Proceedings a...
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Publisher
Kenthurst, NSW : Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd, 2016.
[Kenthurst, New South Wales] Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd, 2016.
Place of Publication
New South Wales
Date Published
2016.
2016.
Subjects
Subject Keywords
- Australian
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Summary
No mariner knew the wide Pacific better than James Colnett, RN. He had sailed with Cook; he had filibustered in the north-west Pacific fur trade (nearly starting a war with Spain in the process); he had made a whaling reconnaissance to the Galapagos Islands. Although the journal is an important record of a short-lived experiment using warships as c...
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A voyage to New Holland and round the world : for the purpose of transporting convicts thither and returning with ship timbers, with observations on the mutinous state of New South Wales and the superiority of New Zealand for settlement / undertaken and performed by Captain James Colnett of the Royal Navy, in HMS Glatton during the years 1802 and 1...
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Cover title.
Includes bibliographical references(pages 95-96) and index.
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Date Copyright
©2016
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Call Numbers
H 2016/2678
Record Identifier
74VKVd3rMEeX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVd3rMEeX
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ISBN
9781925078893
DDC
910.9164
MMS ID
991024000289102626
