Starting from the pewter plate Dirk Hartog left at Shark Bay in 1616, Forbes imagines the adventures of a Dutch seaman cast away on the coast of New Holland. Captivity among Aboriginal people, life as the only white man in the land and further voyages follow; its attitudes to Indigenous Australians are those of its time.
An old-fashioned sea adventure built on a real episode in the European discovery of Australia. Download the free EPUB.