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'It is the 1640s and Claesgen lives in Batavia with her stepmother, Jannetje, waiting weeks, and sometimes months, for her father, Abel Tasman, to come back from his sea voyages. When he returns, Tasman delights his young daughter with tales of treacherous oceans and relentless wild weather, hazards of unseen coral reefs and endless days of empty ocean, encounters - both friendly and hostile - with indigenous peoples, murder and theft, and the threat of smugglers and pirates.
Inspired by a 1637 painting of the Tasman family by Jacob Cuyp and meticulously researched, 'My Father's Islands' is a fictional story told through the voice of Claesgen. Tasman's young daughter's curiosity about her father's life takes the reader on his voyage on the unchartered seas of the Pacific Ocean, in the search for unknown lands and new sources of riches for the powerful trading company, the Dutch East India Company.
Either a gift for young readers or an invaluable resource for the classroom, 'My Father's Islands' opens up to children a significant, but little known, part of Australia's history - the European discovery of parts of the Unknown South Land by the heroic explorer and navigator, Abel Janszoon Tasman.' (Source: Publisher's blurb)
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Book Launched at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 1 November 2012.
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My Father's Islands: Abel Tasman's Heroic Voyages by Christobel Mattingley
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , June 2012;
— Review of My Father's Islands : Abel Tasman's Heroic Voyages 2012 single work children's fiction -
What We're Reading
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Inside History , September-October no. 12 2012; (p. 65)
— Review of My Father's Islands : Abel Tasman's Heroic Voyages 2012 single work children's fiction -
Untitled
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking about Books for Children , July vol. 27 no. 3 2012; (p. 22)
— Review of My Father's Islands : Abel Tasman's Heroic Voyages 2012 single work children's fiction -
Untitled
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 16 June 2012; (p. 22)
— Review of My Father's Islands : Abel Tasman's Heroic Voyages 2012 single work children's fiction -
[Untitled]
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 56 no. 3 2012; (p. 38)
— Review of My Father's Islands : Abel Tasman's Heroic Voyages 2012 single work children's fiction
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Untitled
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 16 June 2012; (p. 22)
— Review of My Father's Islands : Abel Tasman's Heroic Voyages 2012 single work children's fiction -
Untitled
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking about Books for Children , July vol. 27 no. 3 2012; (p. 22)
— Review of My Father's Islands : Abel Tasman's Heroic Voyages 2012 single work children's fiction -
What We're Reading
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Inside History , September-October no. 12 2012; (p. 65)
— Review of My Father's Islands : Abel Tasman's Heroic Voyages 2012 single work children's fiction -
[Untitled]
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 56 no. 3 2012; (p. 38)
— Review of My Father's Islands : Abel Tasman's Heroic Voyages 2012 single work children's fiction -
My Father's Islands: Abel Tasman's Heroic Voyages by Christobel Mattingley
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , June 2012;
— Review of My Father's Islands : Abel Tasman's Heroic Voyages 2012 single work children's fiction
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- South Pacific, Pacific Region,
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cNew Zealand,cPacific Region,
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