Alas, for the Pelicans: Flinders, Baudin & Beyond : Essays and PoemsIn 1802 a Frenchman and an Englishman famously encountered each other off the shores of South Australia. The voyages of discovery of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders opened the way for the increasingly rapid colonisation of 'Terra Australis'. |
Contents
The Map Maker 1988 | 10 |
Flinders Map 1975 | 16 |
The Missing Line 1924 | 29 |
Letters I II and III 2002 | 47 |
To a Statue of Matthew Flinders on North Terrace 1998 | 57 |
PART 2 | 80 |
Matthew Flinders 1971 | 93 |
The Lost Letters of Ann Chappelle Flinders | 96 |
Death of Matthew Flinders 1991 | 126 |
Granite Island Fragments 2002 | 141 |
Rhunjullang Two Sisters 1999 | 159 |
Mr Flinders and the Aborigines 1994 | 173 |
Matthew Flinders Landing on Bribie Island | 185 |
Bass Straitsmen A Study in Survival and Regeneration | 192 |
Libran Birthday 1991 | 205 |
Bibliography 210 | 213 |
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