Author: CORMICK, CRAIG.
Title: Shipwrecks Of The Southern Seas.
Description: First Edition; Super Royal 8vo; pp. 304; text with several colour and b/w. illustrations, bibliography, endnotes, index; stiff wrapper, half-title and title page a little crinkled; otherwise a fine copy. Millers Point; Pier 9;2011. Ranging through time from 1622 to 1890, 'Shipwrecks of the Southern Seas" is a re-telling of 22 fascinating old stories - some iconic, many forgotten - of shipwreck. mutiny, piracy and marooning in the waters of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, concentrating on the age of sail and steam.

Keywords: shipwrecks ociania survival mutiny piracy maritime history