Mariners Are Warned!

Marsden Hordern

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The Miegunyah Press
15 July 2002

Biography: historical, political & military; Australasian & Pacific history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Geographical discovery & exploration; Geodesy & surveying for maps & charts

First full account of the third and last great hydrographic survey of the Australian coastline undertaken by the British Hydrographic Office.

John Lort Stokes was commissioned by the British Hydrographic Office in 1837 to survey and chart unknown parts of the Australian coastline. He was the last Royal Navy surveyor to hold such a roving commission-as had Matthew Flinders and Phillip Parker King before him. The voyage lasted six years and his ship was H.M.S. Beagle, of Charles Darwin fame.

Stokes circumnavigated Australia twice. In the north he discovered the Fitzroy, Albert and Flinders rivers and Port Darwin, and in the south charted that graveyard of sailing ships, Bass Strait. A century later, twelve of his charts were still in use.

The occasional breathtaking foolhardiness of this earnest and conscientious man startles the reader, as it must have done his men. On a whim, Stokes twice risked drowning himself and others with him, and he made several daredevil escapes from crocodiles.

The stories are gripping, and Marsden Hordern

is a gifted and vigorous storyteller. He

is

ably assisted

by the ship's mate, Helpman-a chatty, witty chronicler. Mariners are Warned! is an engrossing biography, written with empathy by a fellow mariner.

Winner of the Age Book of the Year; Victorian Premier's Literary Award (A. A. Phillips Award for Australian Studies); Braille Book of the Year; Australian Maritime History Prize.

Companion volume to King of the Australian Coast, another prize-winning maritime biography by the same author.

By: Marsden Hordern
Imprint: The Miegunyah Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 161mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 568g
ISBN: 9780522850444
ISBN 10: 0522850448
Pages: 410
Publication Date: 15 July 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Marsden Hordern is a graduate of Sydney University and founder of a print gallery. His life-long association with the sea includes naval service in peace and war, and much ocean sailing. In early Sydney-Hobart yacht races, he used instruments that Stokes would have understood perfectly.

Reviews for Mariners Are Warned!

""Must rank as one of the most satisfying and absorbing pieces of historical writing to emerge from our presses during a time of remarkable brilliance and productivity."" ""There is literary skill of the highest order in this, and controlled, sensitive imagination. Yet everything in the book is hard, documented fact. It is an extraordinary scholarly as well as literary achievement.""

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