books by Joan Druett     books:     Joan Druett      Shark Island (Wiki Coffin Mysteries) Joan Druett St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006 excellent historical mystery In 1838 Wiki Coffin enjoys his work as the linguist with the U.S. Exploring Expedition though he knows that long stretches along the Atlantic are boring and seemingly endless. Besides being the official translator to the seven vessel research project, he also does ...             Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail Joan Druett Routledge, 2001 Best Medicine Medicine has long been an adventurous and rewarding profession - but these days we count those adventures in the halls of hospitals and rewards range from fat grants to the Nobel Prize. No modern physician, however, can tell the tale of being lionized by South Sea ...             Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World Joan Druett Algonquin Books, 2007 Gripping historical tale of endurance and survival against all odds There are not enough stars to show how much I enjoyed this enthralling story of survival in an extremely hostile environment. Historian Joan Druett, drawing from journals kept by the shipwrecked crew throughout their ordeal and later accounts of the survivors, ...             A Watery Grave (Wiki Coffin Mysteries) Joan Druett St. Martin's Minotaur, 2005 Great mystery along with a wonderfuul nautical adventure At the end of this book, you will definitely be left wanting more. You know that the tale has just begun and are hoping the author finishes the next story sooner rather than later. The characters are richly drawn, the descriptions of life on board detailed enough to ...             She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea Joan Druett Simon & Schuster, 2001 Queens of the High Seas People may think that the womens' movement began in the 1960s or '70s, but the ladies whose stories are told in this book prove that female empowerment was alive and kicking on-board clipper ships and at the helm of pirate cutters long before Gloria Steinem was a gleam ...             Run Afoul (Wiki Coffin Mysteries) Joan Druett St. Martin's Griffin, 2007 Mystery in the Age of Sail! A 19thC U.S. (naval) Exploration Expedition has been having its difficulties... amongst them, the poisoning death of one of the scientists. Linguist and multi-talented aide and former NE whaler, Wiki Coffin, a half-Maori, half-American, has a penchant for finding the ...             Deadly Shoals (Wiki Coffin Mysteries) Joan Druett St. Martin's Minotaur, 2007 Signal from the Vin This is an excellent book in an excellent series. The idea of using a half Maori/half Yankee against the backdrop of the US South Seas Exploring Expedition is original and clever, well done indeed. Any fan of nautical fiction will like this series, the attention to ...             HEN FRIGATES: Passion and Peril, Nineteenth-Century Women at Sea Joan Druett Simon & Schuster, 1999 Hen Frigates This is an outstanding non-fiction book so alive with detailed stories about women aboard ships that it reads like a novel. It discloses not only women's stories about long journeys, shipwrecks, and daily experiences on board, but how women served as navigators across ...             In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon Joan Druett, 2003 REIGN OF TERROR ON THE HIGH SEAS "Whaling captains were men who left their souls at home." On May 25, 1841, the whaling ship Sharon departed Fairhaven, Massachusetts for the limitless Pacific. She sailed under the command of Captain Howes Norris. The sun was already setting on America's whaling ...             Abigail Joan Druett Macmillan, 1989 the best adventure/romance/suspense book I've ever read I picked up this book recently and couldn't bear to put it down. I'm disappointed that I'm done with it! The characters were believable and interesting. They were an intrinsic part of a solid, suspenseful tale told at an exciting pace. The wealth of fascinating, ...             She Captains : Heroines and Hellions of the Sea Joan Druett Barnes & Noble Books, 2005 History, Woman's Studies, Transportation, Maritime             She Was a Sister Sailor (The American Maritime Library ; V. 13) Mary Brewster Mystic Seaport Museum, 1992 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 ...             Promise of Gold Joan Druett Pan Macmillan, 1990 One of my TOP TEN BEST books ever read!!! I could not put this book down. The aspects of sailing and being a pirate added such color to the overall story. I had to have more of Joan Druett to read. She's simply a wonderful writer. I WANTED TO BE ON THAT SHIP!             The Sailing Circle: 19th Century Seafaring Women from New York (Three Village Historian, V. 36) Joan Druett, Mary Anne Wallace Three Village Historical Society, 1997 "The sister sailors of Long Island: prelimary list, 1826-1915"--p. 40-41.             Hen Frigates: Wives of Merchant Captains Under Sail Joan Druett Simon & Schuster, 1998 Excellent Accounts of the Sea Joan Druett has put together fascinating stories about women that set sail with their husbands. Not only have their trials and tribulations been recorded, but first hand accounts from diaries were beautifully interlaced among the stories. The illustrations are ...          products you might be interested in search for books historian, nineteenth, nineteenth-century, seafaring, shipwrecked, whaleship      geepe.com    web randomly chosen DVD: Potty Power - For Boys & Girls