Author: BASSETT, MARNIE.
Title: Behind the Picture. H.M.S. Rattlesnake's Australia * New Guinea Cruise 1846 to 1850.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xii, 112; map endpapers, frontispiece, 20 plates, coloured folding panorama at rear of book, 2 sketch maps (1 full-page), bibliography, index; blue-green cloth, gilt decoration on cover, lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket with minor marks, otherwise a very good copy. Melbourne; Oxford University Press; 1966. An account of the experiences and feelings of Captain Owen Stanley, and his officers, including the junior surgeon Thomas Huxley and Rattlesnake's guest artist Oswald Brierly, during the Rattlesnake's survey cruise off the coasts of Australia and New Guinea and among the islands of Torres Strait between 1846 and 1850.

Keywords: Australian discovery exploration maritime H. M.S. Rattlesnake Australia New Guinea cruise general history