The Naval Pioneers of Australia
by Louis Becke
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About this eBook
- Author
- Jeffery, Walter, 1861-1922
- Credits
- Produced by Sjaani and PG Distributed Proofreaders
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DU: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: History of Oceania (South Seas)
- Subject
- Australia -- Discovery and exploration
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 12992
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12992
- Release Date
- July 22, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE — NAVAL PIONEERS
- 2.AND WALTER JEFFERY — AUTHORS OF "A FIRST FLEET FAMILY"; "THE MUTINEER," ETC. — WITH ILLUSTRATIONS — LONDON — JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET — 1899
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.AUSTRALIA
- 6.CHAPTER I. — INTRODUCTORY—THE EARLIEST AUSTRALIAN VOYAGERS: THE PORTUGUESE, SPANISH, AND DUTCH.
- 7.CHAPTER II. — DAMPIER: THE FIRST ENGLISHMAN IN AUSTRALIA.
- 8.CHAPTER III. 1755 — CAPTAIN COOK, THE DISCOVERER.
- 9.CHAPTER IV. — ARTHUR PHILLIP, FOUNDER AND FIRST GOVERNOR OF NEW SOUTH WALES.
- 10.CHAPTER V. — GOVERNOR HUNTER.
- 11.CHAPTER VI. — THE MARINES AND THE NEW SOUTH WALES CORPS.
- 12.CHAPTER VII. — GOVERNOR KING. — EXTEMPORE ALLEGRO.
- 13.CHAPTER VIII. — BASS AND FLINDERS
- 14.CHAPTER IX. — THE CAPTIVITY OF FLINDERS
- 15.CHAPTER X. — BLIGH AND THE MUTINY OF THE "BOUNTY"
- 16.CHAPTER XI. — BLIGH AS GOVERNOR
- 17.CHAPTER XII. — OTHER NAVAL PIONEERS, AND THE PRESENT MARITIME STATE OF AUSTRALIA—CONCLUSION.
- 18.INDEX
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