Life of George Bass (ePub)
Surgeon and Sailor of the Enlightenment
(Sprache: Englisch)
On 5 February 1802, the 142-ton brig Venus cleared Sydney heads to begin a trading voyage through the islands of the Pacific. On board as captain was one of her owners, the surgeon, navigator, adventurer and now entrepreneur George Bass. Neither Bass nor...
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On 5 February 1802, the 142-ton brig Venus cleared Sydney heads to begin a trading voyage through the islands of the Pacific. On board as captain was one of her owners, the surgeon, navigator, adventurer and now entrepreneur George Bass. Neither Bass nor the Venus completed the voyage. They simply vanished into the Pacific. The questions are many. Was the Venus wrecked on the coast of New Zealand? Did the ship sink in a storm? Or, as some reports suggest, did Bass reach South America only to be incarcerated by the Spanish?The brilliant and charismatic Bass embodied the Age of Enlightenment. He was a man of intense intellectual curiosity, of wide-ranging talents and contradictions. He had friends among Sydney's political radicals' but was also of the establishment. He was a skilled surgeon who preferred navigation to medicine, a naval officer who put his career on hold in an attempt to make a fortune and a man deeply in love but who abandoned his beloved Bess Bass' for the rewards of an adventurous voyage into commerce. In The Life of George Bass lie all the elements of personality and circumstance that shaped this short but remarkable life.Miriam Estensen brings to bear exhaustive research in archives and libraries around the world, and her characteristic subtlety and insight to present a richly detailed account of the life and mysterious disappearance of this gifted and very complicated man.
Autoren-Porträt von Miriam Estensen
Miriam Estensen is the author of Discovery: the Quest for the Great South Land, published in Sydney and New York to critical acclaim, and most recently The Life of Matthew Flinders, a thorough and highly praised account of the life George Bass's close friend and fellow adventurer.American-born Estensen has a sea-faring heritage, the legacy of forebears in Sweden and Spain's Basque country. Many year of travel has deepened her interest in the maritime history of the world. She lives with her husband, a retired sea captain, on Australia's Gold Coast.
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- Autor: Miriam Estensen
- 2005, 288 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Allen & Unwin
- ISBN-10: 1741159016
- ISBN-13: 9781741159011
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2005
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