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Abigailby Joan DruettISBN 0553282433 (0-553-28243-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Abigail'Book summary:Born at sea and raised in early nineteenth-century New Zealand, strong-willed Abigail Sherman is the daughter of the American owner of a shore-whaling station. Trouble with the English authorities prompts Captain Sherman to set Abigail on board a ship bound for Massachusetts, at the start of a series of hair-raising adventures that shifts from vicious mutinies to storms off Cape Horn, to encounters with militant womens rightists, to a murder trial in New Bedford.
Teased by a cryptic riddle that promises a fortune, and shocked by news of her fathers brutal assassination, Abigail escapes her puritanical relatives and heads back to New Zealand, determined to claim the ship that is her rightful inheritance. It is a turbulent expedition, in which she crosses paths with gamblers, fortune-hunters, and opportunistic whaling captains, and survives the savage jungles of Panama and the dangerous alleyways of the ports of Chile and Peru, finally to meet the ultimate challenge of treachery in the South Pacific.
Here, Joan Druett, the author of twelve popular maritime books, has created a novel of compulsive readability. Superbly researched, the story of Abigail confirms the reputation of a widely acclaimed spinner of tales of the sea.
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Deadly Shoalsby Joan DruettISBN 0312353375 (0-312-35337-5)
Hardcover, Minotaur Books
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Fulbright in New Zealandby Joan Druett , New Zealand-United States Educational FoundationISBN 0473006022 (0-473-00602-2)
Hardcover, New Zealand-United States Educational Foundation
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Hen Frigates: Wives of Merchant Captains under Sailby Joan DruettISBN 0285634488 (0-285-63448-8)
Hardcover, Souvenir Press Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hen Frigates : Wives of Merchant Captains under Sail'Book summary:"I have crossed the Atlantic four times, and have been once to the East Indies and back again, and only once; besides being in different places about home: Cork, and Lisbon and Gibralter.... and I can safely say that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship. While we were together, you know, there was nothing to be feared." --Mrs. Croft in Jane Austen's Persuasion
Much has been made of man's romance with the sea, and to read the literature--from Homer's Odyssey to Melville's Moby Dick--you'd never guess that women so much as got their feet wet in the surf, let alone went down to the sea in ships. But Jane Austen's fictional Mrs. Croft, the wife of an admiral, was by no means a rarity in her time as Joan Druett's fascinating exploration of women and the sea, Hen Frigates, makes clear. During the 19th century, women often accompanied their sea-captain husbands or fathers on oceangoing merchant ships, enduring the same hardships as the male sailors--sickness, poor weather, shipwreck, piracy--and a few of their own, as well, such as pregnancy and childbirth. Yet the history of women at sea has remained largely unwritten and unacknowledged. Then in 1984, Druett discovered the gravestone of a whaling captain's wife while bicycling on one of the Cook Islands in Polynesia. "A woman on a whaleship! It seemed incredible. Instantly fascinated, I thought I would look up a book to learn more about this young woman who had made such a strange and fatal decision to go to sea." What Druett discovered, however, was that there was no book. So she wrote one herself. In Hen Frigates, Druett has used the letters and journals of seafaring women to limn a portrait of 19th-century ship-going life, including matters such as sex, child-rearing and medical practices. From shipwreck and pirate attacks to the intricacies of navigation and the pleasures of visiting foreign lands, Druett's heroines shed new perspective on the 19th-century shipping news. [via]
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A Promise of Goldby Joan DruettISBN 0553281976 (0-553-28197-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sailby Joan DruettISBN 0415924529 (0-415-92452-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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Run Afoulby Joan DruettISBN 0312365624 (0-312-36562-4)
Softcover, Griffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Run Afoul'Book summary:[via]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, not the least being blamed for the sudden grave illness of a fellow crewman. But soon his own fate will be the least of his problems.
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, careless maneuvering leads one of the vessels to run afoul of a Salem trading ship.
The trader is owned and commanded by none other than the famous and larger-than-life Captain William Coffin, father to Wiki and sailor of all seven seas (plus another dozen or so hes managed to invent in his years of telling tall tales). The encounter sets in motion a series of chaotic events that reunite Coffin with his illegitimate half-Maori son and that will see two men dead, Captain Coffin on trial for murder, and Wiki working feverishly to unmask the real killers before the Expedition sails onleaving his father at the mercy of an unforgiving Brazilian court.
Shark Islandby Joan DruettISBN 0312361475 (0-312-36147-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shark Island'Book summary: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.[via]
But when they encounter a wrecked sealing ship and its desperate crew on the shoals of remote, uninhabited Shark Island, Wiki has little idea just how many of his skills are about to be put to the test. As soon as they board the wreck, a dead body turns up with a dagger firmly inserted between its shoulder blades. And it's not just any dead body: the victim of the brutal murder is none other than the enigmatic captain of the doomed voyage. Whats more, Wiki's colleague and nemesis Lieutenant Forsythe is suspected of the crime.
Knowing full well that Forsythe is capable of such violence, Wiki nonetheless believes him innocent and is duty-bound to prove it for the good of the expedition. Was the murder a case of mutinous sealers taking the law into their own hands? Did the secrets of several mysterious long-ago voyages finally come back to haunt a dishonest and dishonorable captain? Or is Shark Island home to something more sinister than a few lonely goats? Something isn't quite right about the crew of the wrecked ship, and Wiki will stop at nothing to find out just what it is that they're hiding, and, in the process, unmask a vicious killer.
A Watery Graveby Joan DruettISBN 0312334427 (0-312-33442-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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