Please relay who has republished this book as the least expensive copy
of the original I can find is about $500 ! :-)

Thank you,
Courtney



Graeme Cook wrote:

Hi Martin

We are currently cruising in Australia, and here kearned a fascinating
story about one of the early Pacific explorers.

Mathew Flinders was a British naval officer in the late 1700's who
discovered and named Bass Strait between Australia and Tasmania,
circumnavigated Tasmania proving it an island and circumnaviagted and
charted much of the Australian coastline. He actually named the continent
of Australia - before that it was known as New Holland. As he was
returning to England, England went to war with France and Flinders was
imprisoned in the French colony of Mauritius for 15 years.

Anyhow, during his explorations he had a pet cat called "Trim" and he went
on to write a biography of that cat - literally that cat's life story.
And perhaps the only biography of an eighteenth century ship's cat.
Flinders also published his own journal of his explorations. Read
together, they provide a fascinating story.

Both have been recently republished, but I have on-mailed my copies so I
cannot give publishers details. I bought both books at the excellent
bookshop at the Martime Museum of Tasmania in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Cost was about Aus$100 and Aus$30 respectively, or well under US$100
total. The museum's address is .

Fair winds

Graeme






Martin wrote:


Hi, I'm a writer doing a magazine story about ship's cats.

It's funny -- I know there are a lot of ship's cats out there, but I'm
having real trouble finding people who both keep a ship's cat and are
available to be interviewed.

If you have a cat that lives full-time aboard your vessel, I would like
to converse with you about it, probably via email, unless you happen to
be relatively close to Portland, Oregon, USA, which is where I am.

Deepest regards,

Martin Brown


ps. Naturally, I'm on a deadline.
pps. more about me: http://martinjohnbrown.net




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s/v Mutiny
Rhodes Bounty II
lying Oriental, NC
WDB5619

Hi Courtney

Courtney Thomas wrote:
Please relay who has republished this book as the least expensive
copy
of the original I can find is about $500 ! :-)

Thank you,
Courtney


I'm not sure if this is the book you were referring to, but it's about
Trim, and it's 5 pounds:

http://www.nauticalia.com/uk-info/mo...ders/4691.html

That same web site has another book called "Ships Cats in War and
Peace" which I have not yet seen (according to WorldCat, there are only
about 5 library copies in the USA).

Cheers, Martin