Up to two hundred Dutch sailors and passengers were marooned on the west coast of Australia during the 16 & 1700s. This is the story of what became of them.

Mike Dash. The true story of the mead heretic who led history's bloodiest mutiny. 446pp.

by Hugh Edwards. The story of the successful 2001 Australian expedition in search of the French Frigate Uranie, wrecked in 1820 and William Dampier's ship Roebuck lost in 1701.

Michael Nash documents one of Australia's most significant wrecks, the merchant ship Sydney Cove, the first wreck after colonisation. 200pp. Hard Cover.

Hardcover. Phillip Playford. An adventure story of shipwrecks, stolen treasure, arson, courage and betrayal based on the wreck of the Zuytdorp.260pp.

Castaway.

The stories told here actually happened; none is imaginary; none is embellished; all are more fantastic than fiction and are little known. These true tales of nineteenth-century survival reveal the terror, the horror, the dark truths about human nature, the limits of courage and the fragility of life, about people who have been abandoned to the sea, and the ultimate joy of rescue. 272 pp.

The story of the Batavia wrecked on her maiden voyage in 1629 off the West Australian coast.

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Don Charlwood. The perilous voyages of settlers under sail in the great migration to Australia. 324pp.

Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to make history with the first crossing of the Antarctic continent. Shackleton sailed into Weddell Sea on the Endurance while his supply ship Aurora sailed to the Ross Sea to establish a lifeline of supply depots. This is the story of 10 men from the Aurora stranded ashore with little more than what they were wearing and their battle for survival and accomplishment of their assignment.

An excellent book about the history of Broome from 1884 to 1984