
MysteryThriller
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Determined to bring closure to his life-time goal, archaeologist David Norfolk is searching furiously for the wreck of a Portuguese ship he believes has lain buried for almost five centuries in the remote sandhills of southern New South Wales. Such a find would rewrite the history of Australia and at last solve the mystery of the lost continent of Java la Grande, depicted by the mapmakers of Dieppe in the early sixteenth century. But when David unearths the body of a man murdered fifty years before, he stumbles upon another, more personal history - one that might eerily echo his own. An…
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Editions
8 editions- Paperback · English · 2000Owl Books · 340 pages · 9780805064476
- Paperback · EnglishHenry Holt · 9780965002714
- Other · English · 2009Faber & Faber, Limited · 9780571250110
- Other · English · 2008Faber & Faber, Limited · 320 pages · 9780571245840
- Other · English · 1999Henry Holt · 340 pages · 9780805061086
- Other · English · 1998Headline Publishing Group · 9780747273066
ShipwrecksFictionArchaeologists, fictionFiction, suspenseFiction, mystery & detective, generalAustralia, fictionNew York Times reviewedFiction, thrillers, suspense









