Merciful Journey Recollections of a World War II Patrol Boat Man

After serving in the Royal Australian Navy during World War II, Marsden Hordern took up flying and ocean sailing and for some years he navigated yachts in the early Sydney–Hobart races. He founded a print gallery in Sydney, was a director of two public companies, served as a Lieutenant and Lieutenant-Commander with the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Naval Reserves, and was awarded the Volunteer Reserve Decoration. He has published two previous books with the Miegunyah Press. Mariners are Warned!: John Lort Stokes and H.M.S. Beagle in Australia 1837–1843 (1989) won the Age Book of the Year and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and King of the Australian Coast: The Work of Phillip Parker King in the Mermaid and Bathhurst 1817–1822 (1997) won the New South Wales Premier’s Award for General History.Hordern, Marsden is the author of 'Merciful Journey Recollections of a World War II Patrol Boat Man', published 2006 under ISBN 9780522851656 and ISBN 0522851657.