LIBROS DEL AUTOR: joan druett

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  • Lady Castaways
    Joan Druett
    It was not just the men who lived on the brink of peril 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, Tupaia, The Discovery of Tahiti) relates the stories of women who survived remarkable challenges, from heroines like Mary-Ann Jewell, th...
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    10,50 €

  • Storm Swept
    Joan Druett
    Harold Pcderson’s discovery ships are in trouble. Specializing in exploring remote estuaries and photographing endangered wildlife in South East Asia and the western Pacific, his fleet ventures into waters that are rife with pirates.When Jerry Giacomo is hired by Pederson to make his ships look bullet-proof, he finds that the situation is even more precarious than expected. The...
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    13,11 €

  • Daughters of the Storm
    JOAN DRUETT
    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 h...
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    15,68 €

  • Tupaia
    Joan Druett
    Tupaia sailed with Captain Cook from Tahiti, piloted the Endeavour about the South Pacific, and was the ship's translator. Lauded by Europeans as an "extraordinary genius," Tupaia was a star navigator, a brilliant orator, and a most devious politician. Being highly skilled in astronomy, navigation and meteorology, and an expert in the geography of the Pacific, he was able t...
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    15,27 €

  • The Discovery of Tahiti
    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 e...
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    10,49 €

  • Shark Island
    Joan Druett
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    18,15 €

  • A Watery Grave
    Joan Druett
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    18,16 €

  • In the Wake of Madness
    Joan Druett
    After more than a century of silence, the true story of one of history’s most notorious mutinies is revealed in Joan Druett’s riveting 'nautical murder mystery' (USA Today). On May 25, 1841, the Massachusetts whaleship Sharon set out for the whaling ground of the northwestern Pacific. A year later, while most of the crew was out hunting, Captain Howes Norris was brutally murder...
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    19,07 €

  • Rough Medicine
    Joan Druett
    Using diaries, journals, and correspondences, Druett recounts the daily grind surgeons on nineteenth-century whaling ships faced: the rudimentary tools they used, the treatments they had at their disposal, the sorts of people they encountered in their travels, and the dangers they faced under the harsh conditions of life at sea. ...
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    77,15 €

  • She Captains
    Joan Druett
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    18,12 €

  • Hen Frigates
    Joan Druett
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    15,48 €