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 frontispiece, 22 b/w illustrations or maps; index; patterned boards with green cloth spine; boards lightly faded and browned, otherwise a fine copy. Adelaide, the Author, [1952]. Limited edition of 200 numbered copies this is number 44 and the patterned board edition is scarce. Written from accounts by Peron, Freycinet, Francois Michel Ronsard, and Baudin including many parts unpublished at the time.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. Interesting account of Kangaroo island natives. Illustrations include native burials and bark canoes from Tasmanian Aboriginals.

Keywords: Australian discovery exploration South Australia Gulf peron freycinet baudin boullanger aboriginal history australian encounter bay murat kangaroo island