Joan Druett

Eleanor's Odyssey: Journal of the Captain's Wife on the East Indiaman Friendship 1799-1801 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It was 1799, and French privateers lurked in the Atlantic and the Bay of Bengal. Yet Eleanor Reid, newly married and just twenty-one years old, made up her mind to sail with her husband, Captain Hugh Reid, to the Pacific, the Spice Islands and India. Danger threatened not just from the barely charted seas they would be sailing, but from the lowest deck of Captain Reid's East Indiaman Friendship, too-from the cages of Irish rebels he was carrying to the penal colony of New South Wales. Yet, confident in her love and her husband's seamanship, Eleanor insisted on going along.

Joan Druett, writer of many books about the sea, including the bestseller Island of the Lost, and the groundbreaking story of women under sail, Hen Frigates, embellishes Eleanor's journal with a commentary that illuminates the strange story of a remarkable young woman.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Old Salt Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781386841579
• Artikelnr.: 50487500

Autorenporträt

Joan Druett is a maritime historian who is an expert on women at sea under sail. The author of ground-breaking studies, Hen Frigates, She Captains, Petticoat Whalers, and She was a Sister Sailor, she is also the writer of the popular Wiki Coffin mystery series. Her two books about the ordeals suffered by castaways, The Elephant Voyage and Island of the Lost, have also been well received.