Voyager to Disaster : The Life of Francisco Pelsaert. Covering his Indian report to the Dutch East India Company, and the wreck of the ship Batavia in 1629 off the coast of Western Australia, together with the full text of his Journals concerning the rescue voyages, the mutiny on the Abrolhos Islands and the subsequent trials of the mutineers.

Signed in blue ink on title page: ‘Henrietta Drake-Brockman, Perth, 1963’.