Carpet of Silver: The Wreck of the Zuytdorp
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Carpet of Silver: The Wreck of the Zuytdorp
By (Author) Phillip Playford
UWA Publishing
University of Western Australia Press
1st June 1996
Australia
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
True stories: general
910.91648
Winner of Western Australian Premier's Book Awards: Historical & Critical Studies 1997
Physical Properties
Hardback
260
850g
Description
The Zuytdorp, one of the great ships of the Dutch East India Company, disappeared without a trace after leaving Cape Town in 1712, en route to Batavia (Jakarta). The ship was carrying a rich cargo including some 250,000 guilders in silver coins. It was nearly two and a half centuries before the mystery of its fate was finally solved. Phillip Playford, one of the wreck's discoverers, gives an engrossing account of an incredible true story: a personal adventure, a fabulous treasure, and some extraordinary incompetence- fact definitely more exciting than fiction.
