The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Birth and origins; 2. At school and at sea; 3. A voyage under Bligh; 4. The battle off Brest; 5. Australian geography before Flinders; 6. The Reliance and the Tom Thumb; 7. The discovery of Bass Strait; 8. The voyage of the Francis; 9. Circumnavigation of Tasmania; 10. The fate of George Bass; 11. On the Queensland Coast; 12. The Investigator; 13. The French expedition; 14. South Coast discovery; 15. Flinders and Baudin in Encounter Bay; 16. Flinders in Port Phllip; 17. The French at Port Jackson. Peron the spy; 18. Australia circumnavigated; 19. Wrecked on the Barrier Reef; 20. To Ile-de-France in the Cumberland; 21. General Decaen; 22. The captivity; 23. The captivity prolonged; 24. The captivity modified; 25. The order of release; 26. The release; 27. Last years and death of Flinders; 28. Characteristics; 29. The navigator; 30. The naming of Australia; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.