Joan Druett

A Watery Grave (Book)

Joan Druett

ISBN:9780312334420

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...more details
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A Watery Grave (Book)

Joan Druett

ISBN:9781741752717

It's 1838 and Wiki Coffin, half-blood Maori son of a Salem ship captain, waits on the banks of the Elizabeth River, Virginia. Pistols ready, he is scheduled to fight a duel but instead discovers a boat drifting with a dead woman inside...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:324

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Deadly Shoals (Book)

Joan Druett

ISBN:9780312353377

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...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:290

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Deadly Shoals (Book)

Joan Druett

ISBN:9781741752786

Wiki Coffin's ship, Swallow, has reached the Rio Negro, an area of remote Patagonia famous for its rough gauchos and desperate revolutionaries. An area where men have disappeared without a trace.As the resident linguist and captain's clerk on the US Exploring Expedition...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:300

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Hen Frigates (Book)

Joan Druett

ISBN:9780684854342

A "hen frigate," traditionally, was any ship with the captain's wife on board. Hen frigates were miniature worlds -- wildly colorful, romantic...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:276

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In the Wake of Madness (CD)

Joan Druett

ISBN:9781565117631

IN THE WAKE OF MADNESS is the gripping true story of one of the bloodiest mutinies of the nineteenth century, written by an award-winning maritime historian. In 1841...more details
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In The Wake Of Madness (Book)

Joan Druett

ISBN:9781869505363

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...more details
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In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon (Book)

Joan Druett

ISBN:9781565124356

After more than a century of silence, the true story of one of history's most notorious mutinies is revealed in Joan Druett's riveting "nautical murder mystery" (USA Today). On May 25...more details
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Island of the Lost (Book)

Joan Druett

ISBN:9781741753684

In January 1864, five seamen from the wrecked schooner Grafton are stranded on an isolated speck of land some 300 miles south of New Zealand. Battling ferocious winds...more details
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Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Book)

Joan Druett

ISBN:9781565124080

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...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:284

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Rough Medicine (Book)

Joan Druett

ISBN:9780415924511

"Killing whales is sometimes attended with bad accidents." -- Dr. William Dalton, surgeon of the"Phoenix" Scurvy. Amputation. Tropical disease...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:224

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Rough Medicine (Book)

Joan Druett

ISBN:9780415924528

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:270

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Run Afoul (Book)

Joan Druett

ISBN:9780312365622

U.S. Exploring Expedition linguist Wiki Coffin sails with the famous convoy of ships toward Brazil, where he faces a whole new set of trials and tribulations...more details
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Run Afoul (Book)

Joan Druett

ISBN:9781741752779

US Exploring Expedition linguist Wiki Coffin sails with the famous convoy of ships toward Brazil, with no idea the amazing encounter the fates and the winds have set in motion. As the great flagship Vincennes leads the convoy under the dubious command of eccentric captain Charles Wilkes toward a dramatic entrance in the port of Rio...more details
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Shark Island (Book)

Joan Druett

ISBN:9780312361471

Wiki Coffin, linguist aboard the U.S. Exploring Expedition, the famous voyage meant to put America at the forefront of 19th century scientific discovery...more details
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Shark Island (Book)

Joan Druett

ISBN:9781741752762

Wiki Coffin, American-Maori linguist, sails aboard the US Exploring Expedition launched to put America at the forefront of nineteenth-century scientific discovery. His skills in Portuguese have him posted to Shark Island off the Brazilian coast to investigate a report of pirates. Intrigued...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:312

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She Captains (Book)

Joan Druett

ISBN:9780684856919

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:308

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She Captains (Book)

Joan Druett

ISBN:9780684856902

From across the seven seas, Druett looks at maritime history from a female perspective, telling the real-life stories of sister sailers who have dared to captain ships of their own...more details
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She Was a Sister Sailor (Book)

Joan Druett

ISBN:9780913372609

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...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:480

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Tupaia - The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator (Book)

Joan Druett

ISBN:9781869793869

Tupaia, lauded by Europeans as 'an extraordinary genius', sailed with Captain Cook from Tahiti, piloted the Endeavour about the South Pacific...more details
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Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives at Sea 1820-1920 (Book)

Joan Druett;Ron Druett

ISBN:9781584651598

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:213

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Tupaia: Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator (Book)

Joan A Druett

ISBN:9780313387487

Tupaia was the brilliant Polynesian navigator and translator who sailed with Captain James Cook from Tahiti, piloted the "Endeavour" across the South Pacific...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:255

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