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John Thompson: 'From Terra Australis to Australia' | |
| Superbly edited by Paul Brunton, one of the reigning doyens of Australian manuscript curatorship, the letters have been published as the inaugural volume in a publishing partnership between the Sydney antiquarian booksellers Hordern House and the State Library of New South Wales. | ||
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Anne-Maree Whitaker: Royal Australian Historical Society | |
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The book's greatest strength is that it gives voice to a young man of the late eighteenth century, writing in an era when letters took years to reach their recipients. Despite this time-lag Flinders' words are dashed onto paper almost with the immediacy of an email, giving us a sense of his personality which is equally found in the correspondence of his contemporaries Watkin Tench and David Collins. | ||
