An historic novel threaded with love, truth and innocence lost, The Voyage of the Shuckenoor emerges from the 'mary's cabin' - where women were secluded aboard 'black birding' tall ships of the 19th Century. Sailing from Queensland to Melanesia in 1903, 17-year-old Hilda Kofke accompanies her beloved father, Gustave, a government officer on his final 'labour recruiting' voyage through the South Seas. Far from the pacifist and champion of Pacific islanders' rights she believed him to be, Hilda learns that her father was once 'the butcher of New Guinea' who believed in the 'perfect logic' of the preemptive strike.
- ISBN13 9781921479045
- Publish Date 18 August 2008
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 November 2021
- Publish Country AU
- Publisher Interactive Publications
- Imprint Glass House Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 452
- Language English