The Kite Flyer

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Publisher: ‎ Dune Publishing (26 October 2020)

Language: ‎ English

Paperback: ‎ 390 pages

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1925999846

Brief Summary – Elevator Pitch:

1686 – 1712, Middelburg, Zeeland, the Netherlands.

Gerrit de Waal is born in 1686 during the Dutch Golden Age of oceanic sea-faring, exploration and trade. His father disappears on a voyage across the Indian Ocean in 1694. Determined to search for his father, Gerrit signs on aboard the sailing ship Zuytdorp in 1711. He survives her shipwreck in June, 1712. Cast ashore on the Australian continent, he is saved from certain death by a chance meeting with a local Malgana family. Assimilation does not come easily, in the place where the sun meets the sea. Lennard Currie has researched the de Waal family tree and believes his life intertwines with theirs.