Wrack: James Bradley (engl.) 309 S.

Archaelogist David Norfolk is searching for a wreck of a Portuguese caravel he believes has lain buried in the sandhills of New South Wales for almost five centuries. Such a find would rewrite the history of Australia, and at last solve the history of the continent of Java la Grande, depicted by the mapmakers of Dieppe in the sixteenth century.

But when David unearths the body of a man murdered fifty years before, he happens upon a more personal history. An elderly recluse, dying in a nearby shack, seems to know something of the corpse's identity - and also its connection to the mysterious ship. Sensing David's urgent curiosity, he embarks upon a tortuous story of scholarly ambition and sexual passion, rivalry, deceit and betrayal. But will he give David the information he needs before it is too late?