Search Results: King Of the Australian Coast - the Work Of Phill… by Marsden Hordern

The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne 2004. 24.0 x 16.0cms, 442pp, b/w illusts, very good+ paperback & cover Presented as the 'greatest of Australia's early maritime surveyors', King was a naval officer, explorer, hydrographer, administrator, astronomer, geologist, artist, writer & pastoralist. He charted most of Australia's north-west coast and surveyed Macquarie Harbour in Tasmania.

Melbourne Univ Pr, 2004. Paperback. New. 468 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. Phillip Parker King is Australia's third great hydrographer. Boy hero of the Napoleonic Wars, naval officer, explorer, hydrographer, administrator, astronomer, geologist, artist, writer and pastoralist, King was also the first native-born Australian to achieve flag rank in the Navy.

Carlton South: The Miegunyah Press. 1998. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. DJ spine a little sunned. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. Black and white maps including nine fold-out maps in rear pocket. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xx, 441 pages. The Miegunyah Press Series 2; No. 16. Winner of the 1998 NSW Premier's Literary Award for General History. . Reprint. Hardback.

The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne 2004. 24.0 x 16.0cms, 442pp, b/w illusts, very good+ paperback & cover (stained page block does not affect reading) Presented as the 'greatest of Australia's early maritime surveyors', King was a naval officer, explorer, hydrographer, administrator, astronomer, geologist, artist, writer & pastoralist. He charted most of Australia's north-west coast and surveyed Macquarie Harbour in Tasmania.

Melbourne University Press, 2002. Softcover. FINE!. BOATS Maritime Australiana An absorbing and masterly account of Australia's third great hydrographer, Phillip Parker King.Phillip Parker King has been described as the greatest of Australia's early marine surveyors. But while the achievements of Cook and Flinders are widely known, this is the first telling of King's story.Unlike Cook and Flinders, King was Australian-born—the son of Philip Gidley King, governor of New South Wales. In a series of gruelling voyages between 1817 and 1822, King charted most of the north-west coast of Australia from the eastern tip of Arnhem Land all the way round to Cape Leeuwin and King George Sound. He surveyed Macquarie Harbour in Van Diemen's Land and the treacherous waters inside the Great Barrier Reef, filling gaps in the work of his famous predecessors.Marsden Hordern, a splendid storyteller, creates for the reader a sense of following, engrossed, in King's wake. The hazards of reefs, shoals and tides are… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Melbourne: Melbourne U. P., 2002. 1st ed. thus. Nice copy. octavo.. softback with stiff wrappers xx + 441pp., col. & b/w pls., maps, appends., bibliog., index,

Melbourne; Miegunyah Press; 1997. hardcover and dustwrapper in good condition, owner's name on half-title page, some insect damage to rear endpaper, pocket holding lift-out charts torn, ribbon page marker very frayed. 441 pages, colour and b/w illusts, 9 b/w charts in pocket on rear endpaper

Melbourne: Melbourne U. P., 2002. 1st ed. thus. Nice copy. octavo.. softback with stiff wrappers xx + 441pp., col. & b/w pls., maps, appends., bibliog., index, Phillip Parker King stands with Cook and Flinders in the history of the exploration and charting of Australia's coastline. Phillip Parker was the son of Philip Gidley King, the third governor of New South Wales, and godson of Authur Phillip, the first governor. Unlike Cook and Flinders, who were Englishmen exploring a remote shore, King was Australian-born. Indeed he was the first native born Australian to achieve flag rank in the Royal Navy. Limited to 1500 copies. with nine folding maps in rear pocket

Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, 1997. 1st edition. Very nice copy. octavo.. hardback with dust jacket xx + 441pp., colour & b/w plates, maps, appends., bibliog., index, Phillip Parker King stands with Cook and Flinders in the history of the exploration and charting of Australia's coastline. Phillip Parker was the son of Philip Gidley King, the third governor of New South Wales, and godson of Authur Phillip, the first governor. Unlike Cook and Flinders, who were Englishmen exploring a remote shore, King was Australian-born. Indeed he was the first native born Australian to achieve flag rank in the Royal Navy. Limited to 1500 copies. with nine folding maps in rear pocket. Dust jacket lighter at spine o/w Ôas newÕ

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press/Miegunyah Press. 1998. Large octavo, original cloth covered boards, dustjacket, colour plates, b&w plates, maps, b&w text illus, illus endpapers, all nine fold-out facsimile charts loosely inserted inside rear cover, bibliography, index. Traces of insect damage edge of endpapers, o/w very good condition in like d.j. Lavishly illustrated history of the work of King, who stands with Cook and Flinders in the history of the exploration and charting of Australia's coastline. In a series of gruelling voyages between 1817 and 1822 King charted most of the north-west coast of Australia from the eastern tip of Arnhem Land all the way round to Cape Leeuwin and King George Sound. His major discoveries include Exmouth Gulf, Port Essington and the Alligator, Liverpool and Prince Regent rivers. He surveyed Macquarie Harbour in Van Diemen's Land, and the treacherous waters inside the Great Barrier Reef to Torres Strait. <br>Includes nine fold-out… Read More

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