Matthew Flinders sailed under Bligh, fought at sea off Brest, discovered Bass Strait with George Bass, circumnavigated Tasmania and charted much of the Australian coastline, only to be held prisoner by the French on Mauritius for years on his voyage home. Scott tells the whole career from journals and letters, published a century after Flinders’s death.
The standard life of one of the great navigators, for readers of voyages and Australian history. Download the free EPUB.