by Rod Dickson. Highlights 22 mostly unpublished stories portraying the hardships encountered by the men who made up the pearling industry in the early part of the 1900s

Fiction by Hugh Edwards. A quintessential blend of accurate history and gripping narrative.

A voyage of discovery to the coral sea. Rattlesnake was an aging British warship in 1846 when it was commissioned to survey Australia's Great Barrier Reef and chart he New Guinea coast line.

Shipwrecks

Evan McHugh. From the first wreck in 1622 off Western Australia to the tragedy of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, Evan captures all the drama of Australia’s maritime history. 336 pp.

Incredible true story of a 350 km. sea voyage in a wooden dingy after a pearling boat is wrecked

Henrietta Drake-Brockman. The story of the Batavia, wrecked off the coast of Western Australia in 1629. 304pp.

Voyages to the South Seas recounts the epic journeys of French explorers to Australia and encompasses a remarkable period of French and Australian history – when Australia was France's Mars and marsupials were her aliens. Australia may have been colonised by England, but for many years, by sheer weight of specimens and scientific documentation, Australia's biodiversity belonged to France.

Tracing the often-tragic voyages of Bougainville, Lapérouse, D'Entrecasteaux, Baudin, Freycinet, d'Urville and others to Australia from 1768 to 1828, Voyages to the South Seas brings to life the changing society that launched these ambitious endeavours and the scientific discoveries they made. It is the story of noble men impoverished by their passion, and nobodies who made their names through physical courage and intellectual achievement. It is the story of the young men who risked their lives for adventure and excitement but, above all, in the pursuit of scientific knowledge

True story of a 1912 attempt by the Federal government to replace the Asian pearl divers with divers trained by the British Royal Navy, and its fatal aftermath.

$25.00