By Jim Haynes
The most sensible Australian Sea Stories is filled with interesting background, drama, and shock. those tales hint the maritime heritage of Australia from the earliest instances to at the present time. From first-hand debts of voyages from the eighteenth and 19th centuries to fashionable bills of refugee 'boat people', the e-book is a stunning compendium of the recognized and vague, the courageous and the jinxed, human fulfillment and tragedy.
From the secret of the mahogany send and the Dieppe map, which aspect to Portuguese discovery of Australia's whole east coast in 1522, to the poignancy of Matthew Flinders' spouse ready 9 years whereas he charted the coast of the land he named 'Australia', survived shipwrecks and have become a political prisoner of the French, this ebook is stuffed with extraordinary tales of bravery and endeavour, struggle and salvation.
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