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2010
| He was an expert navigator who drew a map of the Pacific encompassing 2500 miles and covering nearly 100 islands totally unknown to Europeans, despite having no experience as a mapmaker. This man was also a translator, an artist, a high priest, an orator, and a most devious politicians. A European erudite? No, merely the greatest known Polynesian navigator of the 18th century.
His name was Tupaia. This is his story.
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2007
| Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death. In 1864 Captain Thomas Musgrave and his crew of four aboard the schooner Grafton wreck on the southern end of the island. Utterly alone in a dense coastal forest, plagued by stinging blowflies and relentless rain, Captain Musgrave-rather....[more] |
2003
| On May 25, 1841, the whaleship Sharon of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, set out for the whaling grounds of the northwestern Pacific under the command of Captain Howes Norris. A year later, while most of the crew was out on the hunt, Norris remained at the helm with four crew members-three of them natives from the Pacific Islands. When the men in the whaleboats spied the Sharon's flag flying at half-mast-a signal of distress-they rowed toward the ship to discover their Captain had been hacked to piece....[more] |
1998
| A "hen frigate", traditionally, was any ship with the captain's wife on board, and Hen Frigates is the dramatic and largely untold story of the enterprising women who sailed on oceangoing merchant ships throughout the last century. These vessels were miniature worlds - wildly colorful, dangerous, and, most of all, romantic - where voyaging was a strenuous challenge under even the best of conditions. Matters were sometimes "rather worse for going to sea", maritime historian and Fulbright Fellow J....[more] |
2000
| Long before women had the right to vote, earn money, or have lives of their own, "she captains" -- bold women distinguished for courageous enterprise on the high seas -- thrilled and terrorized their shipmates, performed acts of valor, and pirated with the best of their male counterparts. From the warrior queens of the sixth century b.c. to the female shipowners influential in opening the Northwest Passage,She Captainsbrings together a real-life cast of characters whose audacity and bravado will....[more] |
2004
| Its 1838, and the U.S. Exploring Expedition, a convoy of ships filled with astronomers, naturalists, and sailors, is set to launch from Virginia. Aboard the Ex. Ex. is linguist Wiki Coffin. Half New Zealand Maori and half American, Wikis duty is to help the crew navigate the Pacific islands that are his heritage. But just before departure he is arrested for a vicious murder he didnt commit. The convoy sails off, and hours later Wiki is exonerated, set free to catch up with his ship. The catch: t....[more] |
2005
| Wiki Coffin, linguist aboard the U.S. Exploring Expedition, the famous voyage meant to put America at the forefront of 19th century scientific discovery, brings many skills to his job. Whether he's translating native languages, assisting his good friend Captain George Rochester as unofficial first mate, or upholding the rule of law as deputy to the sheriff of the port of Virginia, Wiki is never far from the action aboard the seven ships that make up the expedition. But when they encounter a wrec....[more] |
2006
| Praise for the Novels of Joan Druett "Shark Island" "Rousing . . . Druett should win plaudits from both mystery fans and aficionados of naval adventures."--"Publishers Weekly" "Basing her tale in part on the actual Exploring Expedition's voyages, Druett describes with contagious conviction floggings, cramped quarters, pettifogging officers, and rum rations."--"Kirkus Reviews" "A Watery Grave" "This impressive debut will appeal both to fans of historical mysteries and to Patrick O'Brian readers."....[more] |
2007
| Wiki Coffin plays many parts on the U.S. Exploring Expedition---sailor, linguist, navigator, and, as half-Maori, cultural go-between. But then the brig Swallow reaches the coast of Patagonia, an area infamous for its rough gauchos and revolutionary spirit, and he must take on his other role, that of agent of U.S. law and order.A New England whaler shows up, desperate to find the devious trader who has cheated him of a thousand dollars and a schooner. Wiki is assigned to find the missing ship, on....[more] |
2000
| By use of detective work and meticulous research, Joan Druett has reconstructed an exciting account of a way of life that has long since vanished. Using diaries, journals, and correspondences, Druett recounts the daily grind surgeons on nineteenth-century whaling ships faced: the rudimentary tools they used, the treatments they had at their disposal, the sorts of people they encountered in their travels, and the dangers they faced under the harsh conditions of life at sea. Rough Medicineis much ....[more] |
1989
| Joan Druett offers an informed and accessible account of little known stories of wives of whaling captains who accompanied their husbands on long and arduous journeys to bring whale oil and blubber to New England. Surprisingly, by 1850 roughly a sixth of all whaling vessels carried the captains' wives. Invariably the only woman aboard a very cramped ship, they endured harsh conditions to provide companionship for their husbands, and sometimes even exerted a strong unofficial moral influence on a....[more] |
1972
| A thrilling seafaring adventure from the author of Hen Frigates, She Captains, and Petticoat Whalers. |
1999
| A "hen frigate," traditionally, was any ship with the captain's wife on board. Hen frigates were miniature worlds -- wildly colorful, romantic, and dangerous. Here are the dramatic, true stories of what the remarkable women on board these vessels encountered on their often amazing voyages: romantic moonlit nights on deck, debilitating seasickness, terrifying skirmishes with pirates, disease-bearing rats, and cockroaches as big as a man's slipper. And all of that while living with the constant fe....[more] |
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