(Paperback, First published in 1968 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson)

Charco Harbour is the story of Captain James Cook's first Pacific voyage in 1768, a journey into a world to which Europeans had never been and reported back before, a journey which leads to shipwreck at Charco (near Cooktown in Queensland). At a time when Australia was terra incognita, a great navigator like Cook still displayed human failings.