BERGIN, Tom;

SUNKEN SAGAS: Whalers of the Coral Sea. The Forgotten Pioneers of Queensland 1793-1852.

Boreen Point, Queensland. Published by Bergin Publications, 2001. Small 8vo.pp.iv + 186 illustrations and map in black & white. Very good quality production in pictorial stiff card wrappers. softcover.
Number 39 of 200 copies printed. Inscribed and signed by the Author. Fine copy. Item #192717

The history of the whaling ships and whalers who visited the coast six years before Flinders and far from being forgotten the coast was visited by thousands of men over the next half century.The history of whaling and its impact on the indigenous population, the whales and the cost with many shipwrecks and massacres.

Price: $110.00