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Peter Grose: Ten Rogues: the unlikely story of convict schemers, a stolen brig and an escape from Van Diemen’s Land to Chile.

Peter Grose, Ten Rogues: the unlikely story of convict schemers, a stolen brig and an escape from Van Diemen’s Land to Chile Allen & Unwin, February 2020, p/bk, 248pp, ISBN: 978 1 76063 261 8, RRP: AUD$29.99 Any visitor to Sarah Island…

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Alan Frost, Mutiny, Mayhem, Mythology: Bounty’s Enigmatic Voyage

Alan Frost, Mutiny, Mayhem, Mythology: Bounty’s Enigmatic Voyage Sydney University Press, 2018,  336pp.,  ISBN: 9781743325872, p/bk, AUS $40.00 With more than 3,000 published books and articles about the Bounty’s voyages and its various aftermaths, do we need another one? Professor Frost believes we do…

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Joy McCann, Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean

Joy McCann, Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean. NewSouth Books (2018),  256pp., ISBN 9781742235738, p/bk, RRP: $32.99   The Southern Ocean, the world’s least known and least visited ocean, is the only ocean which flows completely around the earth, unimpeded…