Racy, yet scholarly, this biography captures the life of King and his five hazardous voyages to reveal his significant achievements as Australia's third great hydrographer after Cook and Flinders. King was, as the author puts it, "naval officer, explorer, hydrographer, adminstrator, astronomer, geologist, artist, writer and pastralist".
- ISBN13 9780522847208
- Publish Date 9 November 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 April 2007
- Publish Country AU
- Publisher Melbourne University Press
- Imprint The Miegunyah Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 462
- Language English