Discoveries in Australia : With an Account of the Hitherto Unknown Coasts Surveyed during the Voyage...
Discoveries in Australia : With an Account of the Hitherto Unknown Coasts Surveyed during the Voyage...
Discoveries in Australia : With an Account of the Hitherto Unknown Coasts Surveyed during the Voyage of the HMS Beagle, between the Years 1837 and 1843. Volume 2 / John Lort Stokes. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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1 online resource (588 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Place of publication not identified : publisher not identified, 1846.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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1846.
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John Lort Stokes (1812-85) was a naval officer on board H.M.S. Beagle - the same ship that had carried naturalist Charles Darwin around the world in 1831-6. Stokes served on that expedition and on the following commission, which was a survey of Australia in which the crew was charged with discovering more about the largely unknown land mass. The ex...
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Discoveries in Australia : With an Account of the Hitherto Unknown Coasts Surveyed during the Voyage of the HMS Beagle, between the Years 1837 and 1843. Volume 2 / John Lort Stokes. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge library collection. History of Oceania
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74VKaz0OWzDO
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1-139-05920-3
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991024402487302626
