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Abrolhos: Keep Your Eyes Open - A Guide to the Natural and Human History of the Houtman Abrolhos Islands of WA by Howard Gray
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.