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  • Island of the Lost

    An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World

    de Joan Druett ...
    This is the brutal history of Auckland Island, a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean that faces year-round freezing rain and howling winds, making it one of the most forbidding places in the world—where to be shipwrecked 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Discovery of Tahiti

    de JOAN DRUETT ...
    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 European adventurers who discovered the island. It was not just a tropical port of call that Captain Wallis and his men found, but their tales of golden girls and a majestic island queen became a foundation stone of the Romantic Movement, an enduring inspiration ... Leer más

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  • Tupaia, Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator

    de JOAN DRUETT ...
    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 ... Leer más

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  • Yankee Adventurers

    de JOAN DRUETT, JOAN DRUETT ...
    They were flamboyant, grasping, and incredibly brave.They were seafarers who dared to challenge the storms of the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn and burst into the Pacific. These amazing characters sailed where few others dared to go, in search of trade and profit.China tea was worth big money in New York, Salem and Boston, but could only be bartered for silver, aphrodisiacs … or furs. So ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Launching of the Huntress

    The Money Ship, #1

    de JOAN DRUETT ...
    Series Libro 1 - The Money Ship
    Money ships were wrecks of treasure-galleons that were belched up from the bottom of the sea after tremendous storms, yielding doubloons and all other kinds of precious treasure ... gold bars and bullion, chests of brilliant gems. Though just a story Jerusha Gardiner heard in childhood, it led to a strange and convoluted quest in far-off and exotic seas, triggered by the launching of the ship ... Leer más

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  • The Money Ship

    de JOAN DRUETT ...
    Money ships were wrecks of treasure-galleons belched up from the bottom of the sea after tremendous storms, yielding doubloons and all kinds of precious treasure ... gold bars and bullion, chests of brilliant gems...Oriental adventurer Captain Rochester spun an entrancing tale to Jerusha, seafaring daughter of Captain Michael Gardiner -- a story of a money ship, hidden in the turquoise waters of ... Leer más

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  • Finale

    de JOAN DRUETT ...
    This cross-continental journey had proved very pleasant, particularly considering that he was dead. Or so Timothy ironically mused…The year is 1905, and the heyday of Thames, in the goldfields of New Zealand. Back in 1867, Captain Jake Dexter, a flamboyant adventurer and pirate, and his mistress, the actress Harriet Gray, invested the fortune they made during the gold rushes of California and ... Leer más

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  • Daughters of the Storm

    The Bacchante Books, #1

    de JOAN DRUETT, JOAN DRUETT ...
    Series Libro 1 - The Bacchante Books
    A raging hurricane. A tiny fishing village in a distant land. A London nightclub dancer stumbles into the local clinic with the famous fire-fighter who carried her to New Zealand. The wife of an American shipping tycoon is on board his new luxury yacht as it battles the storm to reach the village. The young wife of a wine-maker struggles through mud, wind and rain to call for help, as her husband ... Leer más

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  • Lady Castaways

    de JOAN DRUETT ...
    It was not just the men who lived on the brink of peril when under sail at sea. Lucretia Jansz, who was enslaved as a concubine in 1629, was just one woman who endured a castaway experience. Award-winning historian Joan Druett (Island of the Lost, The Elephant Voyage), relates the stories of women who survived remarkable challenges, from heroines like Mary Ann Jewell, the "governess" of Auckland ... Leer más

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  • The Petrel Affair

    de JOAN DRUETT ...
    There was something very wrong on the fatal voyage of the American whaleship Petrel. Vile things had happened on board, things that would have been carefully kept under wraps, except for the curiosity and kindness of the constable in charge of law and order in the Bay of Islands, Alexander McGilp. After he listened to the ghoulish tales told by four men who had run away from the ship, instead of ... Leer más

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  • She Captains

    Heroines and Hellions of the Sea

    de Joan Druett ...
    With her pistols loaded she went aboardAnd by her side hung a glittering swordIn her belt two daggers, well armed for warWas this female smugglerWas this female smuggler who never feared a scar.If a "hen frigate" was any ship carrying a captain's wife, then a "she captain" is a bold woman distinguished for courageous enterprise in the history of the sea. "She captains," who infamously possessed ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Notorious Captain Hayes

    The Remarkable True Story of The Pirate of The Pacific

    de Joan Druett ...
    The incredible true story of William "Bully' Hayes, the so-called "Pirate of the Pacific" in the 19th century; the myth and the man.The story of Bully Hayes - so-called "Pirate of the Pacific" - is known throughout the Pacific, from the US to Australia and all points in between. He became the inspiration for a variety of fictional characters, writers from Robert Louis Stevenson to James A Michener ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD