A Hazardous Life - Captain George Forsyth Mariner and First Harbour Master of the Colony of Western Australia

Ron Forsyth (Index by); George Forsyth (Artist); Ross Shardlow (Artist); Kerry Sanderson (Foreword by); Ian Forsyth; Nicholas Burningham (Technical editor); Stephen Dobson (Cover Design by); Julie Taylor (Designed by, Editor, Maps by); Marcia van Zeller (Editor); Peter Worsley (Editor); Jill Worsley (Editor); David Nicolson (Photographer)

George Forsyth arrived in Western Australia in the early 1860s, still in the era of wood and sail and at the beginning of the era of iron and steam. The port of Fremantle - a critical maritime hub for the colony - was desperately unfit to meet the demands of growing maritime activity.Forsyth battled sno...