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A prequel to his 'World's end': British military outposts in the 'ring fence' around Australia 1824-1849, this book by prize-winning historian and keen sailor Alan Powell celebrates the small ships of Australia's colonial navy. Brigs, cutters, schooners and sloops were pressed into service in a rag-tag assembly of 'seagoing maids of all work', cramped and overloaded with provisions, building materials, livestock and even convicts. The crews of these 'doughty little craft' sailed with courage and often blind faith in their ultimate survival as they toiled through some of the world's most treacherous seas to deliver life-preserving supplies to the military outposts that ringed Australia in the early nineteenth century.

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Alan Powell was Emeritus Professor of History at Charles Darwin University, Darwin. He taught, researched and written extensively on north Australian and World War II History. His book 'Northern Voyagers' won the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for History in 2011 and was awarded the Northern Territory Chief Minister’s Book of the Year Award in the following year.

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