Sea Voyages Gone Badly
Don't get on that ship! The Bounty, Essex, Pequod, Titanic, Andrea Gail, Sea Wind, Lucky Dragon -- these are names of doomed ships, the epitome of sea voyages gone badly. [...]
The Notorious Captain Hayes; a conversation with author Joan Druett
The American-born seafarer William "Bully" Hayes was a notorious celebrity in his own lifetime and in the century after his death became the antihero of numerous accounts, novels, secondhand memoirs [...]
Who wouldn’t sell a petticoat and go to sea?
A sailor takes her easeartwork by Eye Be Oderlesseye.mimifoxmorton.blogspot.com Women in breeches -- I got caught up in the masquerade back in 1999, while serving as a voyage crewmember [...]
Judas Island
Joan Druett’s Judas Island, the first book in her Promise of Gold series, features a young woman on a free trader’s ship in the mid-nineteenth century– a topic Joan knows [...]
Joan Druett blogs about Surgeon’s Mate
One of my favorite author/historians is Joan Druett, whose maritime history books are all on my shelves and were important to the background research for the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure [...]