The treacherous and beautiful Coral Sea is the background for this story of the nineteenth century adventurers on perilous voyages into its waters in search of the bêche-de-mer and pearl shell; of the savage chiefs who ruled its islands; of the seamen who charted it; of the explorers struggling up the Queensland coast; a tale of the taming of the wilderness and its people.
...as in all Idriess books, there is always something good somewhere; and here it is the two chapters on Jemmy the Hook, who had had both hands chopped off by mutinous islander-crews, and who returned with iron hooks instead of hands to take a gruesome vengeance on yet another mutinous crew; it is a story which calls all the Idriess descriptive powers into play, and the reader avid of blood-and-guts can be assured of exactly that. - The Bulletin, 1957
As so often in Australian letters, an initial fall into obscurity and harsh judgments of the literary establishment serve as good indicators of a writer's pre-eminence. - Nicholas Rothwell, The Australian, 2017
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Table of contents
- Author's Note
- 1. TOWARDS THE UNKNOWN NORTH
- 2. THE CONTINENT AWAKENING
- 3. THE MELTING POT
- 4. THE GREAT REEF
- 5. THE LOST STRAIT
- 6. WHERE THE SEA-SLUG FEEDS
- 7. THE COCKROACHES
- 8. WHEN IRON IS GOLD
- 9. FIRST WITH THE NEWS
- 10. SKULLS AND SHIPWRECKS
- 11. STILL THE WILD NORTH
- 12. THE PATRIARCHS MOVE BY LAND, THE EXPLORERS BY SEA
- 13. AND A TOWER IS BUILT
- 14. TOWARDS THE PENINSULA AT LAST
- 15. GREAT EVENTS IN THE CORAL SEA
- 16. TIME BRINGS CHANGE TO ALL
- 17. THE GOLD AND SHIPS AND KILLINGS OF ORDINARY MEN
- 18. AHOY, BLUEBELL!
- 19. JEMMY THE HOOK
- 20. THE THIRD TIME
- 21. SOMERSET IS BORN
- 22. THE GREAT TREK
- 23. THE ATTACK
- 24. QUEENSLAND STRIKES GOLD
- 25. THE SECOND SINGAPORE
- 26. FOR THE CORAL SEA, THE MOVING FINGER
- 27. THE LESSON BEGINS
- 28. SOMETHING NEW COMES TO KEBISU
- 29. THE GREAT DISCOVERY
- 30. TREASURE OF THE SEA
- 31. THE SETTLEMENT'S FIRST MAN-O'-WAR
- 32. THE SEA OF PEARLS
- 33. VENGEANCE
- 34. CHESTER FINDS HIS GREAT AMBITION
- 35. THE CHIEF KEBISU'S HOUSE
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