Wreck of the Sydney Cove by Max Jeffreys

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent. Dust jacket has creasing at top and tail, with a small tear ar spine tail Spine now protected with book tape.

In February 1797, the merchant vessel Sydney Cove was on a speculative trading voyage from Bengal, India, to Port Jackson, New South Wales. Near the end of its trip, the ship floundered off Preservation Island, Bass Strait, in the aftermath of a hurricane.

Stranded off the north-east coast of Van Diemen's Land, the crew's only hope was to send some of their number in the ship's longboat to Port Jackson to raise the alarm. The longboat was wrecked off the Victorian coast. Its 17 crew then began a further ordeal of a 400-mile trek to the distant colony. Only three crew survived. This journey represents the first overland expedition of any magnitude by Europeans.

Wreck of the Sydney Cove is a dramatised reconstruction of events based on the diary of one of the survivors. (book flap)