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Author: Brian Douglas Abbott Publisher: ISBN: 9780646572949 Category : Admirals Languages : en Pages : 397
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The life of Phillip Parker King was inextricably linked with the establishment of the colony of New South Wales. His father, Philip Gidley King, sailed to Botany Bay on HMS Sirius as Governor Phillip's second in command in 1787, and Lt. King was given the responsibility of establishing the penal settlement on Norfolk Island. King was born on Norfolk Island in 1791. He entered the Royal Navy in 1807 and served in the Napoleonic Wars. His maritime exploration and survey work around Australia 1817-1822 has been well documented, and is also covered in this book. -- Dust jacket.
Author: Brian Douglas Abbott Publisher: ISBN: 9780646572949 Category : Admirals Languages : en Pages : 397
Book Description
The life of Phillip Parker King was inextricably linked with the establishment of the colony of New South Wales. His father, Philip Gidley King, sailed to Botany Bay on HMS Sirius as Governor Phillip's second in command in 1787, and Lt. King was given the responsibility of establishing the penal settlement on Norfolk Island. King was born on Norfolk Island in 1791. He entered the Royal Navy in 1807 and served in the Napoleonic Wars. His maritime exploration and survey work around Australia 1817-1822 has been well documented, and is also covered in this book. -- Dust jacket.
Author: Marsden Hordern Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing ISBN: 0522863574 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 790
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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 ever-present, as is delight in unfamiliar wildlife and curiosity about the Aboriginal people. The question left hanging is whether King might be better known today had he been a less capable, good and faithful servant of the Crown, and more inclined to the excess and ineptitude of certain other early explorers. Winner of the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award for General History. Companion volume to Mariners are Warned!, another prize-winning maritime biography by the same author.
Author: Philip Parker King Publisher: ISBN: Category : Australia Languages : en Pages : 524
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Boongaree accompanied King on his first voyage, 21 December 1817; Bundell accompanied King on 26 May 1821 voyage; mentions of both Aboriginal men throughout; intermittent encounters with natives throughout journeys, main references - v.1, p.4; Twofold Bay natives sighted, woman covered with kangaroo skin; p.38+ Native taken on board near Enderby Island, physical description of Aborigines, logs of wood used for transporting families across river; p.88+ Attack by natives at Port Essington, description of canoe used and taken by Capt. King; p.110+ Melville Island, natives timid, exchanges food & water for axes; p.159+ Outer Bay (Tas.) Physical appearance, clothing, small vocab. (parts of body, names of plants, obtained by Mr. Cunningham); p.175. Port Macquarie - sheets of bark used for water transport, types of huts; p.197. Palm Island - huts and canoes examined; p.200+ Goode Is. Fishbooks and lines exchange for baskets and turtle pegs, males had noses pierced, bracelet of plaited hair only ornament worn; Types of ovens used, natives very friendly; p.212. Intercourse with natives at Endeavour River; p.366. Endeavour R. small vocab. collected by Mr. Cunningham; v.2, p.27+ Description of rock carvings & paintings on Clack Island; p.61+ Hanover Bay natives spear Surgeon, natives hostile, description of catamarans, description of weapons and implements, physical appearance; p.120+ Intercourse with natives at Oyster Harbour, firesticks, eating of seal; Full description of weapons, clothing, small vocab., names of natives; p.139. Pt. Essington - open hostilities; Appendix D; comparative table of languages of natives of Caledon Bay (Flinders), Endeavour R. (Capt. Cook & Forster), King George the Third Sound, Port Jackson, Burrah Burrah tribe (Scott), Limestone Creek (Oxley), Port Macquarie (Hunter), Van Diemens Land.
Author: Phillip Parker King Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 300
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"Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia, Vol. 1" is an account of the exploration of the new continent by Phillip Parker King. King and his crew contributed valuable contributions to Australia's exploration and mapping. Because they were prepared to risk the danger of going in close to the shoreline, they were able to complete the valuable work of charting the entire coastline of Australia.
Author: Marsden Hordern Publisher: Miegunyah Press ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 516
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An atlas of Suffolk, giving comprehensive and detailed coverage of the region. The mapping is produced by the Ordnance Survey to Philip's specification and gives the user complete coverage of all urban and rural areas. The mapping is at a standard scale of 3.5 inches to one mile and is complete with postcode boundaries.
Author: Phillip Parker King Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 470
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"Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia, Vol. 2," tells about the discovery of Australia by the expeditions of Phillip Parker King, an early explorer of the Australian and Patagonian coasts. He led several expeditions around the coasts of Australia in 1818 and 1820, during which they established contacts with the locals and made important historical observations.
Author: Geoffrey Parker Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300210442 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 489
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Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. This compelling biography of the most powerful European monarch of his day begins with his conception (1526) and ends with his ascent to Paradise (1603), two occurrences surprisingly well documented by contemporaries. Eminent historian Geoffrey Parker draws on four decades of research on Philip as well as a recent, extraordinary archival discovery—a trove of 3,000 documents in the vaults of the Hispanic Society of America in New York City, unread since crossing Philip’s own desk more than four centuries ago. Many of them change significantly what we know about the king. The book examines Philip’s long apprenticeship; his three principal interests (work, play, and religion); and the major political, military, and personal challenges he faced during his long reign. Parker offers fresh insights into the causes of Philip’s leadership failures: was his empire simply too big to manage, or would a monarch with different talents and temperament have fared better?
Author: Brian Douglas Abbott
Author: Brian Douglas Abbott
Author: Marsden Hordern
Author: Philip Parker King
Author: Phillip Parker King
Author: Phillip Parker King
Author: Phillip Parker King
Author: Phillip Parker King
Author: Marsden Hordern
Author: Phillip Parker King
Author: Geoffrey Parker