To Build A Ship
The VOC Replica Ship Duyfken
by Robert Garvey

1 876268 57 3 Hardback $49.95
2001

Truly superb photographs. Good Reading

A must for anybody with a taste for this rich period of maritime history, or its amazing ships, stunningly presented. Wooden Boat

In To Build a Ship, Robert Garvey's vivid images transport the reader back to a bygone era of wooden ship-building and exploratory voyages, invoking the sensation of tarred hemp rope in calloused hands and the thrill of discovery in an Age of Sail. Garvey documents not only the construction of the VOC replica ship Duyfken, but also her maiden voyage to the luscious spice islands of Banda, where the hillsides are dotted with crumbling Dutch ruins and nutmeg is still harvested by hand for the world's kitchens.

Spice Adventurers
By Adrian de Jong

1 958053 61 8 Paperback $49.95
2002

For the first time, the logs of the ship Gelderland have been translated from archaic handwritten Dutch into English by Adriaan de Jong.

The Age of Discovery was a heroic era when European seafarers sailed to distant lands to create trading routes which today are all but forgotten.

Like the Portuguese before them, the Dutch found the profits from the spices of the East Indies to be an irresistible lure. Beginning in 1595, fleets of Dutch ships sailed from the Netherlands, south through the Atlantic Ocean and then across the Indian Ocean to Indonesia.

The 1601 fleet led by the ship Gelderland was one such fleet successful not only in securing spices for the tables of Europe but also in beginning the dominant period of Dutch spice trading.

The success of this and other fleets stimulated the Dutch Golden Age, which would make Amsterdam the centre of the arts, culture and trade for a century.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR / ILLUSTRATOR
Adriaan de Jong was born in 1950 in Linschoten, a village near Utrecht in The Netherlands. After taking up permanent residency in Australian in 1982, Adriaan rekindled his interest in the arts and craft of old sailing vessels when introduced to the Duyfken Project by Bert van Zuylen. Besides the manually drawn construction drawings, he assisted the Duyfken research team with the study of Dutch language based historic documents and ship building contacts.

Sent Forth a Dove
Discovery of the Duyfken
by James Henderson

1 876268 24 7 Paperback $19.95
2000

In 1606 the little Dutch East India Company ship, Duyfken, came upon the coast of Cape York Peninsula. Its skipper, Willem Jansz, went to his grave without knowing that his crew were the first Europeans to land on the shores of the sixth continent. His chart lay undiscovered in the archives for many years.

Nearly four hundred years later, a small group of dedicated people set themselves the daunting task of bringing the Duyfken story back to life. They built a replica of the ship, as a gift to the nation on the eve of the millennium, and sought out the stories of the earliest European explorers of the Great South Land. Their project itself would turn into a modern voyage of discovery.

In Sent Forth a Dove, respected maritime author James Henderson, himself one of the driving forces behind the replica project, reconstructs the fascinating career of this intrepid little ship, tells the story of the building of the replica, and describes his own quest for the Duyfken, which finally took him to the remote corner of Australia where its European history began.

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