There was a ship called the "Fortuyn", owned by the Dutch East India Company and commanded by Pieter Westrik, which sailed on her maiden voyage to Batavia in 1723. However, when this "Fortuyn" left the Cape of Good Hope on 18 January 1724, she was never heard of again.
Complex and thoughtful, lyrical and satiric, this curious literary comic strip flirts with personal and national identities - it is fascinating reading - full of inventions, irony and play and Robert Drewe brilliantly and accurately captures a chapter in the changing mood of Australian mythology.
