Contents

Introduction Jim Haynes

‘The Ocean Beach’ Wilfred Mailler

Timeline Jim Haynes

‘The Days When The World Was Wide’ (excerpt) Henry Lawson

It’s out there . . . somewhere Jim Haynes

‘Captain Cook—A Limerick’ Jim Haynes

Voyage to Sydney Mark Twain

‘The Bonny Port of Sydney’ Henry Lawson

Star of the southern seas Jim Haynes

‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ (excerpt) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The ablest seaman in the French navy Ernest Scott

‘Explorers’ Jose-Maria de Heredia

The surgeon’s journal John White

‘Sydney Cove, 1788’ Roderic Quinn

The boy who read Robinson Crusoe Jim Haynes

‘The Ships That Won’t Go Down’ Henry Lawson

The Voyage of the Janet Nicoll Robert Louis Stevenson

‘Requiem’ Robert Louis Stevenson

The ones that got away Jim Haynes

‘The Cyprus Brig’ Frank McNamara

Cecil Rhodes and the shark Mark Twain

‘Sharks Are (Relatively) Harmless’ Jim Haynes

Passage to Melbourne Jim Haynes

‘Break, Break, Break’ Alfred Tennyson

Full up: The voyage of the Palapa David Marr and Marian Wilkinson

‘At the Tide’s Will’ Roderic Quinn

Mystery of the Venus mutineers Anthony Brown

‘Unknown Seas’ (excerpt) George Horton

A harbour full of bodies Jim Haynes

‘Dunbar’ Henry Kendall

Coming across Henry Lawson

‘Sydney-Side’ (excerpt) Henry Lawson

To war with The Banjo Banjo Paterson

‘There’s Another Blessed Horse Fell Down’ Banjo Paterson

Hurrah for old Ireland: The Catalpa rescue Jim Haynes

‘The Catalpa’ Traditional

A day on a lugger Banjo Paterson

‘The Pearl Diver’ Banjo Paterson

Ringed with menace Jim Haynes

‘Lost With All Hands’ Peter Mace

Zaimis Jim Bendrodt

‘The Sea and the Hills’ (excerpt) Rudyard Kipling

One way ticket Jim Haynes

‘How Australian Are You?’ Jim Haynes

The pilots of Port Phillip Bay Matt Stirling

‘Sea Fear’ Charles Souter