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Professor Ernest Scott’s biography of the illustrious navigator Matthew Flinders was first published in 1914 to mark and honour the centenary of Flinders’s death. This second edition is timed to coincide with the bicentenary of the commencement of his voyage on the Investigator, which resulted in the first recorded circumnavigation of the Australian continent. The Life of Flinders \u2013 from his youth in Lincolnshire to his early years in the Royal Navy, his voyage under Bligh, his arrival in Port Jackson, his partnership in exploration with George Bass, his marriage, the subsequent voyages of discovery, his tragically prolonged detention on Mauritius, his return to England and his untimely death at the age of 40 \u2013 is examined in detail in this informative, entertaining and at times moving narrative. Scott’s discursive, whimsical style reveals a biographer enamoured of manly endeavour and the pursuit of ‘scientific discovery’, and while modern readers will perhaps find the prejudices of his age a little remote from those of ours today, he has brought to his work an enthusiasm, diligence, critical rigour, even\u2013handedness and humanity that is immediately apparent and to which one readily responds.<\/p>\n

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