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050 00 $aQK31.B79$bA3 2001
082 00 $a994.02$221
100 1 $aBrown, Robert,$d1773-1858.
245 10 $aNature's investigator :$bthe diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805 /$ccompiled by D.T. Moore, T.G. Vallance & E.W. Groves.
260 $aCanberra, ACT :$bAustralian Biological Resources Study (Flora),$c2001.
300 $axii, 666 p. :$bill. (some col.), maps ;$c26 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 609-622).
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: The beginning of biological exploration -- British settlement in Australia -- A summary of Robert Brown's collecting localities -- Brown's wider interests -- Sources -- The expedition's natural history collections -- The artwork of the voyage -- Conclusion -- Chapter 1. Preparations for the voyage -- Chapter 2. The voyage begins -- Chapter 3. Interlude at the Cape of Good Hope -- and from there to Australia -- Chapter 4. Brown in south-western Australia -- Chapter 5. The Great Australian Bight -- Chapter 6. The Spencer Gulf area -- Chapter 7. Kangaroo Island and the French encounter -- Chapter 8. Bass Strait, Port Phillip, King Island and Sydney -- Chapter 9. Sydney and neighbourhood, May-June 1802 -- Chapter 10. Circumnavigation of the continent begins -- Chapter 11. Events at Broad Sound -- Chapter 12. Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait -- Chapter 13. The Gulf of Carpentaria -- Chapter 14. The Sir Edward Pellew Group to Groote Eylandt -- and Blue Mud Bay -- Chapter 15. Blue Mud Bay to Bremer Island -- Chapter 16. The North Coast -- Chapter 17. The stay at Timor and return to Sydney -- Chapter 18. Sydney and neighbourhood, June-November 1803 -- Chapter 19. Flinders' troubles begin -- Chapter 20. The voyage to Tasmania, Port Dalrymple -- and Port Phillip -- Chapter 21. Derwent River, February-April 1804 -- Chapter 22. Derwent River, May-August 1804 -- Chapter 23. Back at Sydney, late 1804 -- Chapter 24. Visit to the Hunter River, October-November 1804 -- Chapter 25. Grose River area, December 1804-January 1805 -- Chapter 26. Last days at Sydney -- Chapter 27. The return voyage and homecoming -- References -- Index -- TEXT FIGURES -- Figure 1. Engraving of Glossopteris browniana leaves -- Figure 2. Brown's Diary for Monday 7 December 1801, -- recording the first Australian landfall -- Figure 3. Brown's Diary for 14 March 1804, on Table Mountain, -- Tasmania -- MAPS -- Map 1. The King George Sound area of Western Australia. -- Map 2. Lucky Bay and part of the Archipelago of the -- Recherche, Western Australia -- Map 3. Goose Island Bay, Middle Island, Archipelago of -- the Recherche, Western Australia -- Map 4. The Fowlers Bay area of South Australia -- Map 5. The St Francis Island, Smoky Bay and Goat Island -- area of South Australia -- Map 6. Flinders and Waldegrave Islands, South Australia -- Map 7. The Memory Cove and Port Lincoln areas of South -- Australia -- Map 8. The Sir Joseph Banks Group of islands, South -- Australia -- Map 9. The approximate route taken by Brown and party to -- Mt Brown, South Australia -- Map 10. Part of the north coast of Kangaroo Island, South -- Australia -- Map 11. Head of Gulf St Vincent, South Australia -- Map 12. The northern end of King Island, Tasmania -- Map 13. Port Phillip Bay, Victoria -- Map 14. The Sydney district, New South Wales.
540 $aCommonwealth of Australia 2001.
600 10 $aBrown, Robert,$d1773-1858$vDiaries.
600 10 $aBrown, Robert,$d1773-1858$xTravel.
650 0 $aVoyages and travels.
650 0 $aBotanists$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
651 0 $aAustralia$xDiscovery and exploration.
700 1 $aMoore, D. T.
700 1 $aVallance, T. G.
700 1 $aGroves, Eric W.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2002327760.html