Narrative of the Wreck of HMS Porpoise / Robert Purdie ; edited & with an introduction by Matthew Fishburn
- Bib ID:
- 6570074
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Purdie, Robert, 1780-1815, author
- Edition:
- First printed anonymously in the Naval Chronicle 1806 &1807
- Description:
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- Potts Point, NSW : Hordern House, 2014
- iii, 134 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781875567737 (hardback)
- Summary:
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Annotation. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the July 1814 publication of Matthew Flinders' Voyage to Terra Australis, Hordern House is publishing a lively yet hitherto almost unknown account of sailing with Matthew Flinders, written by a young surgeon in the Royal Navy who survived the wreck of HMS Porpoise off the Queensland coast in 1803.The anonymous Narrative is now for the first time shown to have been written by Surgeon's Mate Robert Purdie, a junior officer on board Flinders' ship, HMS Investigator.
- Notes:
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- "First published as an anonymous serial in 1806 and 1807, the only other published eyewitness account of the wreck was by Mattew Flinders, in his Voyage to Terra Australis (1814). With a new introduction and notes by Matthew Fishburn."--Flap jacket.
- Includes bibliographical references: pages 127-134.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Fishburn, Matthew, 1973-, editor, writer of introduction
- Available From:
- 00693822
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2014
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