My Love Must Wait. The Story Of Matthew Flinders

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Times House; Australia's Great Books Series
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1987
Edition: Reprint

Description: 463 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout. Every School Child Knows His History, For He Is History, Sketching The First Outline Of The Great South Land. But Few Know The Story Of A Life-long Love That Is One Of The World's Great Tragedies; Of A Life's Unending Labour For Discovery; Of The Persecutions Of A Cruel Fate That Gave All Only To Take Away, And Sent A Broken Cripple To An Unknown Grave, And Crowned The Ruin With Undying Fame When A Century Had Gone.

Publishers Description: Romance, passion, lusty adventure .-.-. the story of Matthew Flinders navigator, explorer and lover.When Matthew Flinders, the first man to chart and circumnavigate Australia, set sail from England in July 1801, he left behind the intrigues of his homeland but also his young bride of only a few weeks, Ann Chappell. He didn?t see her again for more than nine years. During that time he carried out incredible feats of seamanship and navigation, made the first charts of much of the coastline of Australia, and was shipwrecked and later held prisoner by the French on Mauritius.Meticulously researched and written with great insight and sensitivity, My Love Must Wait is both a tender portrayal of faithful devotion, and a stirring re-creation of the courage and endurance of one of history?s greatest seamen.

ISBN: 0858359774