User:Hesperian/Notes/Houtman Abrolhos
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Batavia shipwreck[edit]
- Pelsaert's journal
Pelsaert's journal (Dutch):
- Third person transliteration by Jan Jansz, published as Ongeluckige voyagie, van't schip Batavia in 1647. Second edition published 1648. Four pirated editions between 1648 and 1670.
- Ongeluckige voyagie translated into French by Melchisidec Thevenot in 1663 for Recueil de Divers Voyages Curieux - very much abridged
- Thevenot's French translation translated into English and published in John Harris's 1705 Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca, or, A compleat collection of voyages and travels consisting of above four hundred of the most authentick writers, beginning with Hackluit ... and continued with others of note ... relating to any part of Asia, Africa, America, Europe or the islands thereof, to this present time ... also an appendix of the remarkable accidents at sea ... together with the invention and use of the magnet, and its variation, &c. (Available at http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?doc=35412)
- Thevenot's French translation translated into English and published in John Callander's 1766 Terra Australis Cognita (Facsimile edition published in 1967)
- Thevenot's French translation translated into English and published in Richard Henry Major's Early Voyages to Terra Australis - see Early Voyages to Terra Australis/The Voyage and Shipwreck of Captain Francis Pelsart.
- Ongeluckige voyagie translated into English by Willem Siebenhaar. Published in The Western Mail in 1897 as The Abrolhos Tragedy.
- Ongeluckige voyagie translated into French by Melchisidec Thevenot in 1663 for Recueil de Divers Voyages Curieux - very much abridged
- Pelsaert's journal translated into English by Drok and published in Henrietta Drake-Brockman's Voyage to Discovery. (NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN)
- Leupe
- P. A. Leupe De Houtman's Abrolhos (Dutch)
- Translated into English and published in Richard Henry Major's Early Voyages to Terra Australia - see Early Voyages to Terra Australis/The Houtman's Abrolhos in 1727.
- Fiction
- W. J. Gordon (1888) The Captain-General: being the story of the attempt of the Dutch to colonize New Holland
- Henrietta Drake-Brockman (?) The wicked and the fair (NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN)
Stokes[edit]
- John Lort Stokes (1846) Discoveries in Australia - see Discoveries in Australia/Volume 2/Chapter 5
- Crawford Pasco A roving commission
Natural history[edit]
- William Saville-Kent The naturalist in Australia
- numerous journal articles by members of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition, most of which were published in the Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology);
- Archibald James Campbell (1890) "Notes on the Zoology of Houtman's Abrolhos" in Report of the second meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
- Charles Gibson (1908-9) "Notes on some birds of the Abrolhos Islands" in The Emu Volume VIII.
...and a great many more