In an innovative look at maritime history from the female perspective, Joan Druett introduces a remarkable array of characters and re-creates their adventures with a captivating immediacy and wit. There are 'pirate queens' armed with cutlasses and pistols who strike fear into the hearts of sailors. There are sea-loving women and women eager to be ...
After more than a century of silence, the true story of one of history's most notorious mutinies aboard the whaleship "Sharon" revealed in a hair-raising tale of murder and madness on the high seas by an award-winning maritime historian.
Telling the true story of two similar shipwreck tragedies that have drastically different outcomes, award-winning maritime historian Druett tells a gripping cautionary tale about leadership, endurance, human ingenuity, and the tenuous line between order and chaos.
The year is 1838, and after more than ten years in the planning, the famous United States Exploring Expedition is set to launch into uncharted waters from the coast of Virginia. A convoy of seven ships filled with astronomers, mapmakers, naturalists, and the sailors charged with getting them around the world, the "Ex. Ex." is finally underway, ...
In the tradition of "The Midwife's Tale" and "Pioneer Women" comes an intimate portrait of the courageous wives of sailing ship captains in the last century, told for the first time in their own words, through journals and letters. 100 illustrations.
In this third seafaring mystery from nautical historian Joan Druett U.S. Exploring Expedition linguist Wiki Coffin sails with the famous convoy of ships toward Brazil, with no idea of the amazing events the fates and the winds have set in store for him.As the great flagship Vincennes, under the dubious command of eccentric captain Charles Wilkes, ...
William "Wiki" Coffin, the half-American, half-Maori serving both as linguist for the 1838 U.S. South Seas Naval Exploring Expedition on the good ship Swallow and as sheriff's deputy for the port of Virginia, turns sleuth again in this follow-up to A WATERY GRAVE. Pursuing reports of pirates to Shark Island, a small spot off the South American ...
Wiki Coffin plays many roles on the U.S. Exploring Expedition linguist, navigator, and, as half-Maori, cultural liaison - but when a New England whaler shows up, frantically looking for his stolen schooner, Wiki must take on the role of unofficial sheriff. The Expedition has reached the Rio Negros, an area famous for its rough gauchos and ...
Scurvy. Amputation. Tropical disease. Irritable captains. Mutinous crews. Such were the trials facing the men who shipped out as doctors on South Seas whalers in the early nineteenth century. Using diaries, journals and correspondence the author tells a fascinating story of remarkable men undergoing unbelievable hardships. In this lively and often ...
After more than a century of silence, the true story of one of history'smost notorious mutinies aboard the whaleship "Sharon" revealed in a hair-raising tale of murder and madness on the high seas by an award-winning maritime historian.
Now in Mystic Seaport's G.W. Blunt White Library, Mary Brewster's journals are here published for the first time. As the most complete account of the female experience at sea, this volume will be of great interest to both scholars and enthusiasts of whaling and maritime history, Pacific history, and women's history. "She Was a Sister Sailor" was ...
A maritime history that considers the part played behind the scenes by sea captains' wives, who often accompanied their husbands on voyages and almost always managed the family business affairs on shore.
Born at sea, Abigail is the boisterous daughter of whaler Captain Sherman. Despite her father's attempts to turn her into the genteel girl she ought to be, her love of the ocean and the twists of fate and fortune conspire against him. Joan Druett steers us through her tempestous voyage into womanhood. Joan Druett won the PEN prize for her first ...
California in the 19th century - the destiny of everyone infected with the fever of the gold rush. The master and crew of the brig "Hakluyt" were no exception, even though they had Harriet Gray on board. This woman has no ordinary part to play towards the beckoning promise of yellow gold.
In January 1864, five seamen from the wrecked schooner Graftonare were stranded on an isolated speck of land some 300 miles south of New Zealand. Battling ferocious winds, relentless freezing rain and an impenetrable coastal forest, their chances of survival are slim. But under the leadership of Captain Thomas Musgrave, they miraculously cling to ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780312353360ISBN:0312353367
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Description: Very Good+ Oysterponds Historical Society; 1995; 69 pages in wraps. Crisp but for short corner crease on back cover. Else fine.; 8vo 8"-9" tall. read more
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