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Read by: Paul English
Running Time: 9 hrs 54 mins
Categories: Non-Fiction, Historical, Australiana
Released: 2018
Media: mp3 CD; Unabridged
ISBN: 9781489436108
The Author
Rob Mundle OAM is an Australian yachtsman, maritime commentator and author.
He is the author of some 19 books, six of which have become best sellers, including:
Captain James Cook: from Sailor to Legend
Fatal Storm: The 54th Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
Bligh: Master Mariner
Flinders: The Man Who Mapped Australia.
Since
publishing those biographies Mundle is regarded as a contemporary
authority on James Cook, William Bligh and Mathew Flinders.
Mundle began sailing as a boy. After finishing school he became a cadet journalist at The Australian newspaper, which led to a career as a noted nautical commentator in print, radio and television and to him becoming known as 'the voice of sailing'.
Since the 1980s he has covered the America's Cup, sailing in the Olympics and the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, on which he is regarded as an authority.
Mundle
is credited with introducing the Laser and J24 class boats into
Australia. From 2011 to 2013 he was Commodore of Southport Yacht Club.
In
2000 Mundle was award the Australian Sports Medal for services to
sailing in the media; and in 2013 was awarded the Order of Australia
Medal (OAM) for services to sailing and to journalism.
For anyone who travelled to Australia before 1850, it was a long and arduous journey that could take as much as four months. With the arrival of the clipper ships, and favourable winds, the journey from England could be done in a little over half this time. It was a revolution in travel that made the clipper ships the jet airlines of their day, bringing keen and willing migrants 'down under' in record time, all hell-bent on making their fortune in Australia.
Rob Mundle is back on the water, with a ripping story that starts on the sea, aboard a clipper ship charging across the Southern Ocean, laden with passengers heading for Melbourne in response to the lure of gold.
Brimming with countless stories of the magnificent ships and fearless (and feckless) characters we find on them, like Englishman 'Bully' Forbes and American 'Bully' Waterman driving their ships to the limit and the tragic legacy of the many shipwrecks that were so much a part of this era.
"Very enjoyable ... fascinating details and stories about the exciting time of the Clipper Ships. Beautifully narrated, it fills in lots of historical detail of early travel to Australia. A great read." - The Age
"Masterful, spellbinding, and extraordinary! Histories of the making of a new nation rarely come as engaging as the series by Rob Mundle - perhaps epitomised best by ‘Under Full Sail’. A wonderful and sensitive record of the making of a nation." - The Observer
“With Mundle's flair for rich description and his attention to even the smallest details, he imbues his narrative with a colour not usually found in historical nonfiction.” - The Australian
"A master of the maritime narrative." - The Sunday Age
"A
story of Australian history .... should be in taught in our schools.
Looking forward to more Rob Mundle books and listening to Paul English
narrating them!" - Audible.com.au review
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