Author: COOPER, H. M.
Title: French Exploration In South Australia. With Special Reference to Encounter Bay, Kangaroo Island The Two Gulfs And Murat Bay 1802-1803.
Description: Limited Edition; 4to; pp. xi, 200; b/w illustrations, maps, index; stiff wrapper, wrapper browned, spine and corners bumped, a good copy. Adelaide, the author, [1952]. Limited edition of 200 numbered copies. Written from accounts by Peron, Freycinet, Francois Michel Ronsard, and Baudin including many parts unpublished at the time. Mathew Flinders account of their meeting at Encounter Bay and extract from Investigators Logbook.Includes entries from the log book of the Geographe and Casurina. Intereseting account of Kangaroo island natives. Illustrations include native burials and bark canoes from Tasmanian Aboriginals.

Keywords: Australian discovery exploration South Australia Gulf