Van Zanden, Henry

Henry Van Zanden, the son of Dutch migrants, is an Australian author. Even as a 10 year old, Van Zanden had a passion for the 17th century Dutch explorers that arrived in Australia as early as 164 years before Cook. His love of history continued into university where he studied the histories of every continent including South- East Asia and Australia. In 1997, Van Zanden released his first book, 1606 Discovery of Australia. The success of this book encouraged Van Zanden to produce a six part series, Australia Discovered. This led him to undertake a number of exploratory expeditions to Western