Nature's investigator
Subtitle: the diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805
By: compiled by D.T. Moore, T.G. Vallance & E.W. Groves.
Contributors: Moore, D. T.; Vallance, T. G.; Groves, Eric W.
Publisher: Australian Biological Resources Study (Flora)
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Canberra, ACT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 666
Subjects: Brown, Robert, 1773-1858 -- Diaries.; Brown, Robert, 1773-1858 -- Travel.; Voyages and travels.; Botanists -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Australia -- Discovery and exploration.
Genres: Diaries.; Biography.
Description: Transcripts of Robert Brown's diaries, supplemented with notes from the writings of Flinders and Good; Brown was the naturalist on the 'Investigator' voyage; maps and diary entries for places visited; mentions contact with Aboriginal peoples, including at: Princess Royal Harbour p. 96-99, 104-5 (includes a word list of eleven words); comments on drawings of van Diemen's land Aborigines at a meeting with Baudin at Encounter Bay, p. 179; at Sandy Cape p. 227; Bongare and Flinders interacting with local people 231-233; Nanberry and others attacked at Port Curtis p. 237-239; Keppel Bay p. 244, 258; Nanbury did not understand the language at Shoalwater Bay p. 259-260; the 'Lady Nelson' which was accompanying the 'Investigator' was sent back to Sydney, taking Nanbaree who was homesick); Murray Islands p. 290-3 (includes word list of five words and three men's names); p. 303 Pennefather River; place name for Mill Creek is Gurakarang or Yierakarang (includes word list of five plant names) p. 445-446; five kinds of kangaroo distinguished p. 446; meeting an Aboriginal party at Port Dalrymple p. 469-470; language of Van Dieman's Land collected by Brown at River Derwent (word list of 31 words) p. 482-483; visit from, then conflict with, Aborigines at Williams River (NSW) p. 553-554.
Notes: Commonwealth of Australia 2001.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 609-622).
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: The beginning of biological exploration; title: British settlement in Australia; title: A summary of Robert Brown's collecting localities; title: Brown's wider interests; title: Sources; title: The expedition's natural history collections; title: The artwork of the voyage; title: Conclusion; title: Chapter 1. Preparations for the voyage; title: Chapter 2. The voyage begins; title: Chapter 3. Interlude at the Cape of Good Hope; title: and from there to Australia; title: Chapter 4. Brown in south-western Australia; title: Chapter 5. The Great Australian Bight; title: Chapter 6. The Spencer Gulf area; title: Chapter 7. Kangaroo Island and the French encounter; title: Chapter 8. Bass Strait, Port Phillip, King Island and Sydney; title: Chapter 9. Sydney and neighbourhood, May-June 1802; title: Chapter 10. Circumnavigation of the continent begins; title: Chapter 11. Events at Broad Sound; title: Chapter 12. Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait; title: Chapter 13. The Gulf of Carpentaria; title: Chapter 14. The Sir Edward Pellew Group to Groote Eylandt; title: and Blue Mud Bay; title: Chapter 15. Blue Mud Bay to Bremer Island; title: Chapter 16. The North Coast; title: Chapter 17. The stay at Timor and return to Sydney; title: Chapter 18. Sydney and neighbourhood, June-November 1803; title: Chapter 19. Flinders' troubles begin; title: Chapter 20. The voyage to Tasmania, Port Dalrymple; title: and Port Phillip; title: Chapter 21. Derwent River, February-April 1804; title: Chapter 22. Derwent River, May-August 1804; title: Chapter 23. Back at Sydney, late 1804; title: Chapter 24. Visit to the Hunter River, October-November 1804; title: Chapter 25. Grose River area, December 1804-January 1805; title: Chapter 26. Last days at Sydney; title: Chapter 27. The return voyage and homecoming; title: References; title: Index; title: TEXT FIGURES; title: Figure 1. Engraving of Glossopteris browniana leaves; title: Figure 2. Brown's Diary for Monday 7 December 1801,; title: recording the first Australian landfall; title: Figure 3. Brown's Diary for 14 March 1804, on Table Mountain,; title: Tasmania; title: MAPS; title: Map 1. The King George Sound area of Western Australia.; title: Map 2. Lucky Bay and part of the Archipelago of the; title: Recherche, Western Australia; title: Map 3. Goose Island Bay, Middle Island, Archipelago of; title: the Recherche, Western Australia; title: Map 4. The Fowlers Bay area of South Australia; title: Map 5. The St Francis Island, Smoky Bay and Goat Island; title: area of South Australia; title: Map 6. Flinders and Waldegrave Islands, South Australia; title: Map 7. The Memory Cove and Port Lincoln areas of South; title: Australia; title: Map 8. The Sir Joseph Banks Group of islands, South; title: Australia; title: Map 9. The approximate route taken by Brown and party to; title: Mt Brown, South Australia; title: Map 10. Part of the north coast of Kangaroo Island, South; title: Australia; title: Map 11. Head of Gulf St Vincent, South Australia; title: Map 12. The northern end of King Island, Tasmania; title: Map 13. Port Phillip Bay, Victoria; title: Map 14. The Sydney district, New South Wales.