Monthly Archives: January 2013

Flinders mapped maritime Australia from sailboats

FLINDERS: The Man who Mapped Australia, by Rob Mundle, Hachette, 386pp. One could niggle that Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) did not “map Australia”, but he was the first known European to circumnavigate the coasts of both the mainland and Tasmania, completing…

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Murdoch’s Private Spies

MURDOCH’S PIRATES by Neil Chenoweth Allen & Unwin, 402pp. This book reads like a spy novel, but the combatants work for private corporations, not states. There are no innocent parties, only winners and losers, in a world where law is…

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