World of the Written Word

Mary Brewster, courtesy Mystic Seaport Museum Mary Brewster, wife of Captain William Brewster, sailed on the whaleship Tiger of Stoni...

Told much less often than the tales of medical derring-do are stories of captains who killed their men with a lethal combination of igno...

American ships did not carry a surgeon.    Indeed, if the ship displaced less than 150 tons and the crew numbered no more than six, t...

Courtesy of John Eastlund

Quite by accident, I found this review in the Marianas Variety  -- and, having researched Micronesian whaling, piracy, and castaway his...

It's for sale... Rare Historic Fabergé Tiara Of Imperial Russian Provenance Unseen For Century To Sell At Christie's And ...

In the picture above, believe it or not, the two pilots of a seaplane are releasing a pigeon. Why? Because it was the early days, bef...

Well, here I am  with more on the Alaric Bond "Fighting Sail" series, as promised.  Having read Sealed Orders  for the fourth...

Monstrous waves in the Southern Ocean, wild winds at the Equator The natural world sure is changing . Waves in the Southern Ocean ha...

Sealed Orders  is the eleventh in this very popular war-at-sea-in-the-Napoleonic-Era series -- and the eleventh in any series is about t...