Sea of dangers. Captain Cook and his rivals

Melbourne : Viking, 2008. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. xii; 418, illustrations, light finger marks to endpapers.

‘This is the most revealing narrative so far written of Cook’s astonishing voyage along the east coast of Australia. It also casts new light on the little-known voyage by Jean de Surville; Blainey argues that the Frenchman was in the vicinity of Sydney Harbour months before Cook arrived. Eventually Cook set out to explore the hazardous Barrier Reef and find a way through Torres Strait, while the Frenchman searched for a mysterious Jewish colony in the South Pacific.’ – the dustjacket