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The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765

J. E. Heeres

The work is a scholarly compilation that gathers and annotates primary documents relating to Dutch…

The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders

Sir Ernest Scott

The work is a scholarly biography of the English navigator Matthew Flinders, whose life spanned 1774‑1814 and…

Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia

Sir Ernest Scott

Terre Napoleón is a scholarly study that examines the French exploratory ventures in Australia during the…

Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea.

John Lort Stokes

The work is a comprehensive, multi‑volume account of the Royal Navy’s surveying voyages along the Australian…

A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner

Matthew Flinders

Australia Twice Traversed The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876

Ernest Giles

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the Present Colony of New South Wales

T. L. Mitchell

The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888

Ernest Favenc

The Naval Pioneers of Australia

Becke, Louis; Jeffery, Walter

Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea

John Lort Stokes

The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work

Ernest Favenc

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the Present Colony of New South Wales

T. L. Mitchell

The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant

Ida Lee

Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart During the Years 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, and 1862, When He Fixed the Centre of the Continent and Successfully Crossed It from Sea to Sea

John McDouall Stuart

A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay

Watkin Tench

Cover of The Australian Explorers: Their Labours, Perils, and Achievements
Being a Narrative of Discovery from the Landing of Captain Cook to the Centennial Year

The Australian Explorers: Their Labours, Perils, and Achievements Being a Narrative of Discovery from the Landing of Captain Cook to the Centennial Year

George Grimm

Journals of Australian Explorations

Gregory, Augustus Charles; Gregory, Francis Thomas

Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia From Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845

Ludwig Leichhardt

A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner

Matthew Flinders

Cover of Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Volume 02

Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Volume 02

Edward John Eyre

Explorations in Australia 1.-Explorations in search of Dr. Leichardt and party. 2.-From Perth to Adelaide, around the great Australian bight. 3.-From Champion Bay, across the desert to the telegraph and to Adelaide. With an appendix on the condition of Western Australia.

John Forrest

Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete

Edward John Eyre

Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria

William John Wills

Cover of Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia:
A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of That Vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain Cook.

Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia: A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of That Vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain Cook.

Richard Henry Major