Download or read book Matthew Flinders Private Journal from 17 December 1803 at Isle de France to 10 July 1814 at London written by Matthew Flinders and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flinders begins his journal at the time of his landfall on Mauritius in December 1803, and the subsequent entries describe his six years of imprisonment by the French, his eventual return to England and the events of his later life up until nine days before his death in July 1814.