ISBN: 978-9215969-2-6 Brolga Publishing, Melbourne, 2011.
The story of Alexander Smith (1812-1872) of the British Navy who survived shipwreck, sailed the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans and finally served gallantly on Captain James Clark Ross' famed Antarctic Expediction. He was later appointed a well-respected Goldfields Commissioner in Castlemaine during the 1850s Victorian goldrushes.