Originial edition has subtitle: "Extraordinary stories of survival and tragedy from the early voyages of discovery to Australia".

Map -- Introduction -- Notes on usage -- Prologue -- Imagining the unknown Southland -- First encounters -- 'More like monsters' -- Blood islands -- Paper voyages -- Death of the dragon -- Cliffs of fire -- The ship of doom -- Skeleton coasts -- Empires collide -- The unknown coast -- The last legend -- Surviving the southland -- Afterword : With the bones.