Hugh Edwards is a Western Australian author who has written 28 books. Thirteen have been published overseas, with editions in the United States, Britain, France, Holland, Germany, Japan, and Canada, and excerpts in Russian. His books are published worldwide in six languages. As the titles indicate, his major interests lie in history and underwater exploration (since the 1950s) and the subjects vary from treasure shipwrecks to diving with the Great white shark. His first book Gods & Little Fishes (on diving on ancient Greek and Roman galleys, and the sunken city of Apollonia in the Mediterranean) was written in 1962. The next book, Islands Of Angry Ghosts (about the discovery of the 1629 treasure ship Batavia, with its gripping story of mutiny, lust, massacre and murder, together with a modern diving adventure) won the Sir Thomas White Memorial Prize for the best book by an Australian in 1966. It has been continually in print for nearly 40 years as an Australian classic. More recently he has written about adventures with the Great white shaRK,  Carcharodon carcharias,  in Shark--the Shadow Below, and diving on a Chinese porcelain junk, the Tek Sing which sank in the South China Sea in 1820 with a greater loss of life than the Titanic. Treasures of the Deep details the raising of the valuable porcelain from 100 feet of water in the Gelasa Strait off Sumatra. Currently he is working on a novel, and a film treatment. His home is inPerth, WA, and he,spends summer time on his boat Beachcomber 111 at Rottnest Island off the coast of Western Australia and visible from the port city of Fremantle. In the winter he goes diving with corals and whalesharks on the Ningaloo Reef out from Exmouth  where he has a holiday home. For a list of his books and currently available copies use the Books or Purchase option.