Flinders : the man who mapped Australia /Rob Mundle.

A biography of Captain Matthew Flinders, the first to circumnavigate and chart the coastline of Terra Australis. Returning to England after his third voyage to the Southern Ocean, Flinders was imprisoned by the French on Mauritius for six years during which time he documented his voyages for future publication. He died shortly before they were published, remembered as the man who helped to give Australia its name.