PublishedHarper Collins, December 2011 |
ISBN9780732294502 |
FormatSoftcover, 434 pages |
Dimensions23.5cm × 15.7cm × 2.6cm |
Hugh Edwards has been fortunate enough to have been involved with four treasure ships. Recognised as the 'primary finder' of the Batavia, in this tale of shipwreck hunting, he offers a close look at the Batavia and other Dutch East India Company wrecks found off the WA coast, as well as adventures in the Mediterranean, Cambodia (where he was ambushed by Pol Pot) and expeditions to the Falklands and Ascension Islands in the Atlantic, where Edwards recovered the ship’s bell from William Dampier’s 1701 Roebuck.
An expedition to the shell-battered wreck of the 1914 German cruiser Emden in the Indian Ocean makes an interesting contrast with the sunken Greco-Roman city of Apollonia in North Africa with a Cambridge University expedition. Another exotic venue lay in the South China Sea where the great Chinese junk Tek Sing had 2000 people aboard when she struck a reef off Sumatra in 1822.
