Joan Druett

Broschiertes Buch

Island of the Lost

An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World

Beschreibung

Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death.

Autor

Joan Druett is a maritime historian and the award-winning author of several books, including Petticoat Whalers, She Was a Sister Sailor, Hen Frigates , Tupaia, and The Discovery of Tahiti. Her interest in maritime history began in 1984, when she discovered the grave of a young American whaling wife while exploring the tropical island of Rarotonga; she subsequently received a Fulbright fellowship to study whaling wives in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and California. Her ground-breaking work in the field of seafaring women was also recognized with a L. Byrne Waterman Award. She is married to Ron Druett, a maritime artist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Workman Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 248g
• ISBN-13: 9781616209704
• ISBN-10: 1616209704
• Artikelnr.: 54033498