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1 y separately published work icon Narrative of the Wreck of HMS Porpoise. Robert Purdie , Potts Point : Hordern House , 2014 8783425 2014 single work prose travel

'Sailing with Flinders: the first published account, now shown to be written by HMS Investigator veteran Robert Purdie


'A lively account of sailing with Matthew Flinders, written by a young surgeon in the Royal Navy who survived the wreck of HMS Porpoise off the Queensland coast in 1803.

'This hitherto almost unknown account is now shown to have been written by Surgeon's Mate Robert Purdie, a junior officer on board HMS Investigator. Purdie's lengthy "Narrative" is the earliest published account of any Investigator veteran and the only account of life on Wreck Reef in the Coral Sea after the foundering of the Porpoise and Cato, and of the survivors who made their own way back to England. First published as an anonymous serial in the famous journal The Naval Chronicle in late 1806 and early 1807, the only other major published eyewitness account of the wreck was by Matthew Flinders himself, in his Voyage to Terra Australis (1814).

'Although published anonymously, the work has always been suspected to be more serious and authentic than the penny-chapbooks and newspaper accounts that were issued at the time, and it is now shown to have been written by Purdie in a new introduction and notes by Matthew Fishburn.' (Publication summary)

1 14 y separately published work icon The Celebrated George Barrington : A Spurious Author, the Book Trade, and Botany Bay Nathan Garvey , Potts Point : Hordern House , 2008 Z1545880 2008 single work criticism
2 1 y separately published work icon Cook, the Discoverer Georg Forster , Berlin : 1787 Z1474216 1787 single work biography
2 y separately published work icon Reflections on New South Wales 1788-1839 Louis de Freycinet , 2001 single work non-fiction
3 1 y separately published work icon Ongeluckige voyagie, van 't schip Batavia, nae de Oost-Indien Francisco Pelsaert , Amsterdam : Gillis Joosten Saeghman , 1648 Z1802149 1648 single work prose travel
1 Australian Maritime Series Hordern House (publisher), 1991 series - publisher
1 1 y separately published work icon A Voyage Round the World in the Gorgon Man of War : Captain John Parker. Performed and Written by His Widow; for the Advantage of a Numerous Family Mary Ann Parker , London : John Nichols , 1795 Z1059972 1795 single work autobiography travel
1 y separately published work icon Photography in Colonial Australia : The Mechanical Eye and the Illustrated Book Robert Holden , Potts Point : Hordern House , 1988 Z1089390 1988 single work criticism
1 3 y separately published work icon Australian Rare Books 1788-1900 Jonathan Wantrup , Potts Point : Hordern House , 1987 Z319306 1987 single work bibliography
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