Capes and captains: a comprehensive study of the Australian coast.

Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1990.
Octavo, laminated boards, 296 pp. illustrations, maps.

You’ll sail around the capes on the Australian coast in the company of great men from 1605 to 1822 and experience discovery with them; what they saw, what they felt, the fascination, despair and danger. Professor Rainer Radok, founder of the faculty of oceanography in Australia, leads you in chronological order with systematic maps of the entire Australian coast into the log books and diaries of every seafaring explorer to be part of the great experience they all shared. A factual and fascinating account from the 1600s to the 1820s, with charting records to the 1980s, 53 detailed maps of the coast and 37 early artists’ drawings.