Spice at Any Price - the life and times of Frederick de Houtman 1571-1627
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400 years ago Frederick de Houtman discovered (for Europeans) the southwest coast of Australia and the Houtman Abrolhos Islands. 'Spice at Any Price’ reveals his amazing life involved in the first Dutch forays into the spice trade and his adventures as a Spy, Astronomer, Navigator, Prisoner, Linguist and Dutch Governor in the East Indies. Houtman, as well as putting the stars of the Southern Hemisphere on celestial charts for the first time, in 1619 added the coastline from Cape Naturalist to Shark Bay, thus showing a vast landmass existed, the long-imagined Southland!
What Readers Say!
I cannot exaggerate how much I enjoyed ‘Spice at Any Price’. The clarity with which you set out the history of the spice trade into Europe and how that evolved with the development of European exploration on the high seas was impressive. My congratulations! [Alannah MacTiernan MLC]
Gray is a historian and story-teller, with an ability to zoom out to give perspective and zoom in to add fascinating details. The beautiful charts, plates and photographs literally show the world being discovered and mapped. An extraordinary story![Anthony Willinge, Netherlands Hon. Consul to WA]
Congratulations on the pictorial excellence of the book, it is lavishly illustrated. [Phillip Adams, Late Night Live 22 January 2020]. Listen: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/the-life-and-times-of-frederick-houtman/11885950
Only a few copies left!
What Readers Say!
I cannot exaggerate how much I enjoyed ‘Spice at Any Price’. The clarity with which you set out the history of the spice trade into Europe and how that evolved with the development of European exploration on the high seas was impressive. My congratulations! [Alannah MacTiernan MLC]
Gray is a historian and story-teller, with an ability to zoom out to give perspective and zoom in to add fascinating details. The beautiful charts, plates and photographs literally show the world being discovered and mapped. An extraordinary story![Anthony Willinge, Netherlands Hon. Consul to WA]
Congratulations on the pictorial excellence of the book, it is lavishly illustrated. [Phillip Adams, Late Night Live 22 January 2020]. Listen: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/the-life-and-times-of-frederick-houtman/11885950
Only a few copies left!