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Companions of Misfortune:
Flinders and Friends
at the Isle of France, 1803-1810
In 1803, Captain Matthew Flinders, returning from an important voyage of discovery, was imprisoned on the then French island of Mauritius.
This book tells the story of his 6 ½ year exile and of the men and women there who befriended him.
These were the tumultuous times of the Napoleonic Wars and the Indian Ocean was...
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