Flinders

Grantlee Kieza, Peter Houghton

$44.95

CD-Audio

In stock
Ready to ship

QTY:

English

ABC Audio
28 November 2023

Biography: general; History; Audiobooks - Non-fiction

In 1810, Matthew Flinders made his final voyage home to his beloved wife, Ann, his body ravaged by the deprivations of years of imprisonment by the French.

Four years later, at the age of just 40, he would be dead – a premature, tragic end to one of the world’s greatest maritime adventurers who circumnavigated and mapped the famed Great Southern Land, and whose naming of the vast continent would become its modern title: Australia.

Flinders took to the sea at age 16, inspired by the story of Robinson Crusoe and the adventures of Captain Cook. After sailing to Tahiti with William Bligh, Flinders was drawn to adventure, and by 1801 he was in command of an expedition to uncover the true nature of the great continent of the southern ocean.

By: Grantlee Kieza
Read by: Peter Houghton
Imprint: ABC Audio
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions: Height: 122mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 68g
ISBN: 9781038657633
ISBN 10: 1038657636
Publication Date: 28 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: CD-Audio
Publisher's Status: Active

Award-winning journalist Grantlee Kieza OAM held senior editorial positions at The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and The Courier-Mail for many years and was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for his writing. He is a Walkley Award finalist and the author of twenty-one acclaimed books, including bestsellers Hudson Fysh, The Kelly Hunters, Lawson, Banks, Macquarie, Banjo, Mrs Kelly, Monash, Sons of the Southern Cross and Bert Hinkler. Peter Houghton has a beautiful natural tone as well as being fantastic with characters and accents. Peter’s feature film credits include Mr Nice Guy, Metal Skin, Three Dollars and, recently, The Eye of the Storm alongside Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis, directed by Fred Schepisi. TV Credits include Molly, Gallipoli and played the iconic role of Richie Benaud in Howzat! Kerry Packer's War. Other TV credits include Wentworth, Winners and Losers, Killing Time, Lowdown, Little Oberon, Stingers, City Homicide and Blue Heelers. Peter has performed on stage with Australia’s leading theatre companies and is an accomplished writer and director.

Reviews for Flinders

'Kieza is a prolific and successful biographer ... He has a fluid writing style in which he wears his research lightly, yet it is thoroughly annotated.' (on Banks) -- Spectator Australia ‘[Grantlee Kieza] writes with the immediacy of a fine documentary … bringing historic personalities to life.’ -- Ballarat Courier