Author: Goodman, Jordan
Title: The Rattlesnake: a voyage of discovery to the Coral Sea
Description: Faber and Faber, 2005.1st edition, 1st impression.Hard covers, dust jacket.ISBN: 0571210732.As new/As new.The story of Captain Owen Stanley's mission to chart the Great Barrier Reef, intertwined with the eventful lives of his ambitious young ship's surgeon Thomas Henry Huxley and the experienced though wayward naturalist John MacGillivray.As gripping in its way as Darwin's journal of the Beagle voyage, this account highlights Britain's imperial ambitions through the efforts made by its chief hydrographer, Francis Beaufort, to make the south seas safe for shipping.x, 357 pp. 35 plates (mainly in colour), some maps in the text. In English.1.0 kg.

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