The year is 1838, and after more than ten years in the planning, the famous United States Explori...

After more than a century of silence, the true story of one of history's most notorious mutinies ...

Wiki Coffin, linguist aboard the U.S. Exploring Expedition, the famous voyage meant to put Americ...

Using diaries, journals, and correspondences, Druett recounts the daily grind surgeons on ninetee...

This book offers a biography of the unacknowledged Tahitian navigator who was essential to the su...

A 'hen frigate', traditionally, was any ship with the captain's wife on board. Hen frigates were ...

Using diaries, journals, and correspondences, Druett recounts the daily grind surgeons on ninetee...

In an innovative look at maritime history from the female perspective, Joan Druett introduces a r...

A raging hurricane. A tiny fishing village in a distant land. A London nightclub dancer stumbles ...

Harold Pcderson's discovery ships are in trouble. Specializing in exploring remote estuaries an...

It was not just the men who lived on the brink of peril under sail at sea. Lucretia Jansz, who wa...

Tupaia sailed with Captain Cook from Tahiti, piloted the Endeavour about the South Pacific, and w...

Romance and the islands have gone hand-in-hand since the bare-breasted young women of Tahiti gave...

The incredible true story of William 'Bully' Hayes, the so-called 'Pirate of the Pacific' in the ...

The remarkable story of Tupaia, Captain Cook's Polynesian navigator. Winner of NZ Post 2012 Best ...

'Riveting.' -The New York Times Book Review Hundreds of miles from civilization, two ships wreck ...

She was a sister sailor.' wrote Mary Brewster upon meeting another whaling wife at Hawaii in 1846...