17 December 1803 to 10 July 1814

Matthew Flinders

The Journal begins on the first day of Flinders' detention at Ile de France (Mauritius) in December 1803 and continues after his return to England in 1810. The final entry, dated 10 July 1814, was written nine days before his death in London.

Its only previous publication was as a facsimile of the hand-written original held by the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.

The present volume is edited by Anthony J. Brown and Gillian Dooley of Flinders University, and includes a Foreword by Witgar Hitchcock, Flinders' great-great-great-nephew, and a Preface by Paul Brunton, Senior Curator at the Mitchell Library.

It also contains eight appendices, an introduction and notes by the editors, an index, maps, colour plates and black and white illustrations in the text.

The Journal presents a fascinating portrait of Flinders the private man, viewed first through the prism of Flinders the prisoner, unjustly detained for more than six years by Captain General Decaen, and later of Flinders the family man, cartographer and writer, struggling against debilitating illness to complete his life's work before his tragic death at age 40.

It is essential reading for all those interested in the 'Great Denominator' who put 'Australia' on the map and named many hundreds of its geographical features.

The edition is limited to 850 copies.
The first 150 are numbered and handbound in quarter leather, gilt, with cloth boards and raised bands. The remaining 700 are a standard limited edition, handbound in blind stamped cloth boards.

574 pages, frontispiece, 12 colour plates, 26 black & white illustrations, 2 maps (including Flinders' 1804 map of Australia in pocket) appendices and index.

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