The Buccaneer’s Bell

Description

In 2001 an Australian expedition of seven men set out from Western Australia for the South Atlantic to find the final resting places of two famous exploration vessels. The French frigate 'Uranie', commanded by Louis de Freycinet was lost in the Falkland Islands in 1820, and William Dampier's ship 'Roebuck' was wrecked at Ascension Island in 1701 This book is about three voyages, in three very different centuries. The first two focus on the compass guiding the course, the sun and the stars telling the position and the wooden sailing ships pressing to the far corners of the world. The third journey, in our own time, is about nature's world far below the ocean.