Carpet of Silver:
The Wreck of the Zuytdorp
Phillip Playford
2006
978 1 875560 734 $45.00 Hb 
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1998 Western Australian Premier's Book Award Winner
It took nearly two-and-a-half centuries to solve the mystery of
the Zuytdorp, one of the great ships of the Dutch East
India Company, which disappeared without trace after leaving Cape
Town for Batavia in April, 1712.
But what became of the ship's crew? And where is the
Zuytdorp’s three tonnes of treasure – its
legendary 'carpet of silver'?
Carpet of Silver is an incredible true story that will
delight treasure hunters of all ages.
‘Carpet of Silver is a thriller, a daring
adventure story of shipwrecks, stolen treasure, arson, courage
and betrayal.’ -The Australian
The Dutch Down Under: 1606 – 2006
Co-ordinating Author – Nonja Peters
2006
978 1 920964 757 $69.95 Hb Add to
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The Dutch Down Under: 1606–2006 provides
illuminating commentary from twenty-three academics and
historians on the socio-economic and cultural impact of Dutch
migration ‘Down Under’ for both Australia and the
Netherlands.
With the histories of these two great nations inextricably linked
– it was the Dutch ship Duyfken which first mapped
part of the coastline of Terra Australis in 1606 – today
some 270,000 Australian residents were either born in the
Netherlands or claim Dutch ancestry, making The Dutch Down
Under a timely celebration of four hundred years of
friendship and cultural exchange.
North To Matsumae: Australian Whalers to Japan
Noreen Jones 2008
978 0 980296 518 $39.95 Pb 
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Shipwreck, mutiny, massacre and imprisonment.
The early nineteenth-century was the zenith of the
international whaling industry as ships from the United States,
Britain and Australia all plied their bloody trade off the coast
of Japan.
In this well-researched historical account, Jones retraces the
perilous voyages of two Australian whaling ships, the Lady Rowena
and the Eamont, as they harvest whales off the Japanese
coast.
Pioneers of the Pacific:
Voyages of Exploration, 1787 – 1810
Nigel Rigby, Pieter van der Merwe and Glyn
Williams2005
978 1 920694 641 $38.95 Hb Add to
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While the figure of Captain James Cook dominates the story of the
European exploration of the Pacific, subsequent expeditions by
the likes of William Bligh, George Vancouver, Matthew Flinders,
La Pérouse and Arthur Phillip have often been consigned to
the B-list of history.
Pioneers of the Pacific corrects this oversight by
variously exploring Cook’s legacy; subsequent
explorers’ encounters with the Pacific’s Indigenous
peoples; the growing professionalism of the hydrographic service;
detailing the types of ships used; presenting a definitive
Who’s Who of artists and scientists who accompanied these
expeditions; and describes the colonial, commercial and imperial
contexts of the voyages during what was the ‘Golden
Age’ of British dominance of the High Seas.
Seeking the Sydney:
A Quest for Truth
Glenys McDonald
2005
978 1 920694 544 $54.95 Hb Add to
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The wartime loss of the pride of Australia’s fleet, HMAS
Sydney, with all hands on board, remains among the great
riddles of modern maritime history - one that has teased
authorities, naval experts and researchers for more than six
decades.
Seeking the Sydney is Glenys McDonald’s detailed
account of the Sydney’s final voyage, its
ill-fated clash with the German raider Kormoran, and her own
deepening obsession to find the truth of what happened on that
fateful November 1941 evening – a search which soon finds
the author squaring off against Australia’s naval
establishment.
Sent Forth A Dove:
Discovery of the Duyfken
James Henderson
1999
978 1 876268 255 $19.95 Pb Add to
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978 1 876268 247 $29.95 Hb Add to
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In 1606, the Dutch East India Company ship Duyfken
unexpectedly encountered the coast of Cape York Peninsula. Willem
Jansz, the Duyfken’s captain, went to his grave
without realising that he and his crew were the first Europeans
to land on the shores of the mythical Great Southern Land.
Nearly four hundred years later, a dedicated group of Western
Australians set themselves the daunting task of resurrecting the
story of Duyfken by building a replica of the ship. In
Sent Forth a Dove, maritime author James Henderson
(himself one of the driving forces behind the replica project),
reconstructs the fascinating history of the little Dutch East
India Company vessel, tells the story of the building of the
replica and describes his own personal quest for the
Duyfken, which finally took him to the remote corner of
Australia where its European history first began.
Shipwreck Archaeology in Australia
Michael Nash
2007
978 0980296 43 3 $49.95 Hb  Add to
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More than seven thousand shipwrecks have occurred in
Australian waters since the loss of the Trial in
1622.Shipwreck Archaeology in Australia provides an
up-to-date summary of the most significant maritime archaeology
projects undertaken in Australia over the past thirty years.
Containing comprehensive maps and many previously unpublished
photographs, it documents leading maritime archaeologists’
work on some of Australia’s most important shipwreck
sites.
To Build A Ship:
The VOC Replica Ship Duyfken
Robert Garvey
2001
978 1 876268 573 $49.95 Hb Add to
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Evoking the sensation of tarred hemp rope in calloused hands and
the thrill of discovery in the Age of Sail, Robert Garvey's vivid
images in To Build a Ship transport the reader back to a
bygone era of wooden shipbuilding and perilous voyages on the
high seas.
Garvey documents not only the construction of the VOC replica
ship Duyfken, but also the ship’s maiden voyage to
the luscious spice islands of Banda, where the hillsides are
dotted with crumbling Dutch ruins and nutmeg is still harvested
by hand for the world's kitchens.
‘Truly superb photographs.’ - Good Reading
Magazine
‘A must for anybody with a taste for this rich period of
maritime history, or its amazing ships, stunningly
presented.’ - Wooden Boat Magazine
Unfinished Voyages:
Western Australian Shipwrecks, 1622-1850
Graeme Henderson
2007
978 1920694 88 3 $59.95 Hb Add to
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Details stories of the countless traders, whalers, emigrants,
convicts, mutineers, slavers and pirates who had fateful
encounters with Australia's notorious shipwreck coast over two
centuries. Lavishly illustrated, with easy-to-follow charts
locating each wreck as well as a wealth of underwater photographs
and new information on the shipwrecks of Christmas and Cocos
(Keeling) islands.
Voyage to Disaster
Henrietta Drake-Brockman2006
978 1 920694 722 $54.95 Hb Add to
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A priceless treasure fuelling the basest human greed, mutiny,
murder, rape and torture - the story of the Batavia,
which ran aground off the coast of Western Australia in 1629, is
arguably the most infamous wreck in Australian maritime history.
Ten years of meticulous research by author Henrietta
Drake-Brockman has resulted in Voyage to Disaster, an
historical tour de force comprising the complete journals of
Batavia survivor Francisco Pelsaert translated from Old Dutch by
E. D. Drok, together with a biography of Pelsaert, revealing him
to be an accomplished writer, historian and administrator.
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