'Eclectic collection of disaster at sea stories - brilliantly written - gripping and entertaining' Lindsay Eaton, goodreads.com 'ROB MUNDLE IS A MASTER OF THE MARITIME NARRATIVE' Sunday Age This be
How Dutch sailors discovered New Holland and left Australia to a British pirate. For many, the colonial story of Australia starts with Captain Cook's discovery of the east coast in 1770, but it was so
Captain James Cook one of the greatest maritime explorer of all time, only the acclaimed fifteenth century explorers, Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama, can stand with him. Bestselling author of
No nation had ever been established in such a manner: seafarers, convicts and a few good citizens - some 1300 in all - consigned to a virtually unknown land on the opposite side of the world to establ
A biography of unprecedented expedition under sail The role of the sailor through history should never be underestimated. Over centuries battles were won and new lands discovered and settled by their
