Gerrit de Waal\'s world is thrown into confusion when his seafaring father\'s ship mysteriously disappears in the Indian Ocean in 1694.
What if his ship was wrecke.
He wants to trace his father\'s footsteps and see if he can be found.
How will he survive to adulthood? At twenty-six, determined to find out what happened to his father, Gerrit signs on as senior carpenter aboard the Zuytdorp.
He\'s eight years old and growing up in cosmopolitan Middelburg, Zeeland, during the Dutch Golden Age.
Gerrit de Waal\'s world is thrown into confusion when his seafaring father\'s ship mysteriously disappears in the Indian Ocean in 1694