A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 / Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner

A detailed seafaring narrative of extensive coastal exploration, recording systematic surveys, charting of bays, islands, reefs and straits, and numerous astronomical, magnetical and nautical observations. It combines practical sailing directions and assessments of anchorages with descriptive passages on landscapes, wildlife and encounters with Indigenous inhabitants, and considers colonial and navigational prospects. The account also recounts a catastrophic wreck on a reef, the crew's survival and return efforts, subsequent voyages to nearby ports and islands, and the prolonged detention of the commander and men in a foreign colonial port.