From Terra Australis to Australia. "Matthew Flinders: Personal Letters from an Extraordinary Life", by Paul Brunton (ed.). [review]
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2002-06
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Thompson, John
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Australian Book Review
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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. With flair, elegance and deep respect and affection for his subject, Brunton has provided an excellent short biography of Flinders and a thoughtful introduction to the letters themselves. To these he has added an impeccable apparatus of notes, illustrations and a bibliography. Brunton’s scholarship is of a high order.
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Book review, Matthew Flinders
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Thompson, John 2002. From Terra Australis to Australia. Review of "Matthew Flinders: Personal Letters from an Extraordinary Life" by Paul Brunton (ed.). 'Australian Book Review', No 242, June/July, 46-47.