Republished with permission. Introduction chapters of the book: A Touch of Dutch. For the full pdf of the book click here.
Section One: Dutch Maritime history in Australia
Chapter 2 Aboriginals and Shipwrecks – The arrival of Australia’s first immigrants
Chapter 3 Anthropological analyses of human skeletal remains associated with the Batavia Mutiny
Chapter 5 – The Diamond Mystery
Chapter 6 The Dutch Turn Up Down Under
Chapter 7 – The remarkable defence: Shell tanker Ondina
Chapter 8 – Operation Potschot: Dutch airmen in the defence of Western Australia, 1944
Chapter 11 – Through the looking glass: an Australian War Bride writes home
Including chapter 12: Johanna Bruce – Nee Herklots and family 1850-1917
Chapter 13 – A Dutch Socialist connection with WA
Chapter 14 – Dutch socialist pioneer links with Dutch literary giants
Chapter 15 – Fremantle: First step to a new future
Chapter 16 – Leaving from the Netherlands
Chapter 17 – The Hervormde Kerk in Perth
Chapter 18 – The Boomerang Youth Club Perth
Chapter 19 – The Free Reformed Community in Western Australia
