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100 1 $aBowen, James.
245 14 $aThe Great Barrier Reef :$bhistory, science, heritage /$cJames Bowen and Margarita Bowen.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2002.
300 $axvii, 454 p., [17] p. of plates :$bill. (some col.), maps ;$c26 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [429]-445) and index.
505 00 $tNavigators and Naturalists in the Age of Sail --$tQuest for the Great South Land --$tNavigators in the New World --$tPortugal and Spain: first navigators of Terra Australis? --$tNew explorers: Dutch, English, French --$tSouth Pacific navigation and the Transit of Venus, 1769 --$tVoyage of the Endeavour: Cook and the 'Labyrinth' --$tThe expedition to Tahiti --$tEncounter with the Reef: through the 'Labyrinth', 1770 --$tAn error of judgment? Endeavour holed on a reef --$tThe Endeavour voyage published: the Reef mystique develops --$tA bizarre controversy: did Cook discover the Reef? --$tEndeavour Naturalists: 'A Separate Creation' --$tEighteenth century natural science: a ferment of ideas --$tEndeavour voyage: first scientific study of the Reef --$tBanks' Florilegium: the great compendium --$tFate of the Endeavour zoological specimens --$tMatthew Flinders: Voyage of the Investigator --$tBritish settlement of New South Wales --$tBligh and Flinders: early Reef surveys --$tFlinders' surveys 1795-1799 --$tThe urgent issue: survey of the colony --$tNew Holland: missing links in nature's chain? --$tRobert Brown: plant taxonomy in a new world --$tScience assessed: Brown and Bauer in England 1805-1814 --$tA Voyage to Terra Australis: the journal published, 1814 --$tThe Reef Explored: Early Surveys, 1821-1844 --$tExpansion of the colony: first decades --$tAustralian coastline charts completed: Jeffreys and King 1815-1822 --$tGeological observations: rise of controversy --$tAccurate reef charts: Beagle survey 1837-1844 --$tJukes and MacGillivray: naturalists on the Fly 1843-1845.
520 1 $a"One of the world's natural wonders, the Great Barrier Reef stretches more than 2000 kilometres in a maze of coral reefs and islands along Australia's north-eastern coastline. This book unfolds the fascinating story behind its mystique, providing for the first time a comprehensive cultural and ecological history of European impact, from early voyages of discovery to the most recent developments in Reef science and management."--Jacket.
650 0 $aNatural history$zAustralia$zGreat Barrier Reef (Qld.)
651 0 $aGreat Barrier Reef (Qld.)$xHistory.
650 0 $aCoral reef conservation$zAustralia$zGreat Barrier Reef (Qld.)
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast
700 1 $aBowen, Margarita.
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