Overview :The year is 1838, and after more than ten years in the planning, the famous United States Exploring Expedition is set to launch into unchart... Read More
Overview :Harold Pcderson's discovery ships are in trouble. Specializing in exploring remote estuaries and photographing endangered wildlife in South ... Read More
Overview :That the Gosling Company should become a theatrical company was a preposterous idea - as crazy as the actual fact that Captain Jake Dexter, ... Read More
Overview :Wiki Coffin, linguist aboard the U.S. Exploring Expedition, the famous voyage meant to put America at the forefront of 19th century scientif... Read More
Overview :As she stood on the deck of the brig Gosling, Harriet Gray was forced to face an unhappy truth. She had been duped, yet again. At eighteen, ... Read More
Overview :The fifth in the Wiki Coffin series finds the U.S. Exploring Expedition off Cape Horn, a grim outpost made still more threatening by the rep... Read More
Overview :Romance and the islands have gone hand-in-hand since the bare-breasted young women of Tahiti gave a rousing welcome to the 18th-century Euro... Read More
Overview :In the heady climate of the nineteenth century goldrushes, "going to see the elephant" was a saying that described an exciting, often danger... Read More
Overview :It was not just the men who lived on the brink of peril under sail at sea. Lucretia Jansz, who was enslaved as a concubine in 1629, was just... Read More
Overview :Tupaia sailed with Captain Cook from Tahiti, piloted the Endeavour about the South Pacific, and was the ship's translator. Lauded by Europea... Read More
Overview :Using diaries, journals, and correspondences, Druett recounts the daily grind surgeons on nineteenth-century whaling ships faced: the rudime... Read More
Overview :Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain an... Read More
Overview :Long before women had the right to vote, earn money, or have lives of their own, "she captains" -- bold women distinguished for courageous e... Read More
Overview :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 "naut... Read More
Overview :A "hen frigate," traditionally, was any ship with the captain's wife on board. Hen frigates were miniature worlds -- wildly colorful, romant... Read More
Overview :The remarkable story of Tupaia, Captain Cook's Polynesian navigator. Winner of NZ Post 2012 Best General Non - fiction Book Award. Tupaia, l... Read More