Trim, The Cartographer\s Cat
Trim, The Cartographer\s Cat A fun and quirky gift book about a much-loved ship's cat: Trim, who helped Flinders map and lap Australia.Trim was the ship's cat who accompanied Matthew Flinders on his…
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Trim, The Cartographer\s Cat
A fun and quirky gift book about a much-loved ship's cat: Trim, who helped Flinders map and lap Australia.Trim was the ship's cat who accompanied Matthew Flinders on his voyages to circumnavigate and map the coastline of Australia from 1801 to 1803. The first part of the book reproduces Flinders' own whimsical tribute to Trim, written while in captivity in the early 1800s, with added friendly footnotes to provide some background to Flinders' numerous literary allusions and nautical terms. Trim, The Cartographer's Cat is a charming ode to the much-loved pet, which will warm the heart of any cat lover.
Finally, we learn what Trim's views on all of this might have been, in a fun Next the book discusses where Flinders was when he wrote his tribute and why, and what his letters and journals from that time tell us about his sporting, affectionate and useful companion.