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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 The Good Captain
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'Set in the near future – during a time of plummeting fish stocks, toxic algae blooms and jellyfish swarms – The Good Captain follows a group of radical environmentalists committed to a mission of extreme civil disobedience against the powers threatening to destroy the last of the world’s marine life.

'Led by the wild Rena – born and raised by the ocean – the characterful crew engages in a high seas drama that contains all the thrill of a cat-and-mouse seafaring classic, while at the same time offering a timely warning for the political classes that their negligence will not go unpunished.

'Evoking a disturbing vision of what the world might soon become – random, dangerous, surprising and sometimes even miraculous – The Good Captain is a gripping, confronting and truly unique novel.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Exhibitions

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Yarraville, Footscray - Maribyrnong area, Melbourne - West, Melbourne, Victoria,: Transit Lounge , 2022 .
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      Extent: 368p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 April 2022.
      ISBN: 9781925760934

Works about this Work

Review for ‘The Good Captain’ by Sean Rabin Shaeden Berry , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2023 2023;

— Review of The Good Captain Sean Rabin , 2022 single work novel
[Review] The Good Captain Terrence MacManus , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 150 2022;

— Review of The Good Captain Sean Rabin , 2022 single work novel
Warm Broth : A Second Novel from Sean Rabin Alex Cothren , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 442 2022; (p. 37)

— Review of The Good Captain Sean Rabin , 2022 single work novel

'Just when you thought there wasn’t enough to worry about, along come bottom trawlers. While the fishing technique of dragging a heavy net along the bottom of the seabed is     nothing new – indeed, there was a British commission inquiry into the practice as far back as 1866 – the sheer size of modern super trawlers maximises their destructiveness. Centuries-old sea coral forests are bulldozed by the thirty-tonne nets, non-targeted fish and turtles become indiscriminately tangled in the web, and the disturbed sediment releases more carbon than the entire aviation industry each year.' (Introduction)

Warm Broth : A Second Novel from Sean Rabin Alex Cothren , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 442 2022; (p. 37)

— Review of The Good Captain Sean Rabin , 2022 single work novel

'Just when you thought there wasn’t enough to worry about, along come bottom trawlers. While the fishing technique of dragging a heavy net along the bottom of the seabed is     nothing new – indeed, there was a British commission inquiry into the practice as far back as 1866 – the sheer size of modern super trawlers maximises their destructiveness. Centuries-old sea coral forests are bulldozed by the thirty-tonne nets, non-targeted fish and turtles become indiscriminately tangled in the web, and the disturbed sediment releases more carbon than the entire aviation industry each year.' (Introduction)

[Review] The Good Captain Terrence MacManus , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 150 2022;

— Review of The Good Captain Sean Rabin , 2022 single work novel
Review for ‘The Good Captain’ by Sean Rabin Shaeden Berry , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2023 2023;

— Review of The Good Captain Sean Rabin , 2022 single work novel
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