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1) In the wake of madness: the murderous voyage of the whaleship Sharon

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Druett, Joan

Language

English

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Recounts the story of the whaleship Sharon, whose captain was murdered by a trio of mutineers and whose remaining crew members died over the course of three subsequent years under mysterious circumstances.

2) Island of the lost: shipwrecked at the edge of the world

Author

Druett, Joan

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD

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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...

3) Tupaia: Captain Cook's Polynesian navigator

Author

Druett, Joan

Pub. Date

[2011]

Language

English

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He was an expert navigator who drew a chart of the Pacific encompassing 2,500 miles and locating nearly 100 islands totally unknown to Europeans. This man was also a translator, an artist, a high priest, a brilliant orator, and a most devious politician. A European polymath? No, merely the greatest known Polynesian navigator of the 18th century. Tupaia sailed with Cook from Tahiti, piloted the Endeavour across the South Pacific, and interceded on...

4) Shark Island

Author

Druett, Joan

Series

Wiki Coffin Mysteries

Pub. Date

2005.

Edition

First St. Martin's Minotaur edition.

Language

English

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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...

5) She captains: heroines and hellions of the sea

Author

Druett, Joan

Pub. Date

[2000]

Language

English

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"Tells us what life was like for the women who dared to captain ships of their own, don pirates' garb, and perform heroic and hellacious deeds on the high seas. We meet Irish raider Grace "Grania" O'Malley and female pirates Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Lovelorn Susan, Ann Jane Thornton, Grace Darling and Scotswoman Betsey Miller". -- Jacket.