Capes of Sunset: Western Australia’s maritime heritage between Peel Inlet and Flinders Bay, Australian National Centre for Excellence for Maritime Archaeology Special Publication No. 15

This glossy, detailed and well researched publication provides the maritime history and background to 150 shipwrecks and strandings, including aircraft, lost in Western Australia’s Southwest region between Mandurah and Cape Leeuwin, the meeting places of the Indian and Southern Oceans. It covers Indigenous use of the coast, early Indigenous-European contacts and the growth of local settlements and industries serviced by the coasting trade include timber cutting, dairying, sealing, whaling, mining, fishing, agriculture and tourism, and maritime infrastructure such as jetties and lighthouses. It is richly illustrated with maps, historic photographs, engravings and underwater photos. pp. 417 illusts #0720 SCARCE (name on prelim.)