ABROLHOS: Keep Your Eyes Open! An introduction and guide to the natural and human history of the Houtman Abrolhos Islands of Western Australia
NEW RELEASE DECEMBER 2024!
This stunning book captures for the first time the remarkable history of this remote Australian archipelago, famous for its Batavia and Zeewijk Dutch shipwrecks and so much more, as well as the unique ecological environment created in a tropical-temperate overlap zone, reefs bathed in both warm and cold currents, beautiful coral reefs and astonishing seabird nesting colonies, the Houtman Abrolhos Islands themselves remnants of the mainland, shaped by staggering changes in sea level .
280 pages lavishly illustrated with over 800 charts, lithographs, artworks and images from the centuries ago to the present-day.
An absolutely essential companion for anyone visiting the Abrolhos!
What readers say:
This book is amazing. Absolute best overview and reference for the Abrolhos ever. [Kim Cramer]
What a book, what huge effort with so much information... [Warren Kalazich]
It boggles my mind to think how you manage to express. so much info in such as creative way. Beautiful photography and there is a personal warmth in your writing. [Evelyn Simpson]
What can I say? Gob-smackingly impressed! Not just breadth of content and photography but you have such a gift of expression. [Mark]
… a comprehensive and beautiful work [John Koivisto]
What a fantastic and comprehensive look at the Abrolhos islands and can’t imagine the effort it must have taken to put it all together. [Robbert Westerdyk]
Congratulations on a magnificent publication. I can’t believe the detail on the natural and historical aspects of Abrolhos. A true gem…. A great contribution to the history of WA. [Mike Scott]