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Floating Gold by Margaret Muir – a Review
Margaret Muir’s novel, Floating Gold, was recently released in paperback. A great read, we never though that it got the attention that it deserved. Here is a repost of our review from May of 2010: Margaret Muir’s new novel, Floating Gold, is … Continue reading
The Perfect Wreck by Steven E. Maffeo – a review by Linda Collison
Linda Collison, author of Surgeon’s Mate and Star-Crossed, recently reviewed Steven E. Maffeo‘s new book The Perfect Wreck – Old Ironsides and HMS Java: A Story of 1812 in her blog Sea of Words. I enjoy reading Linda’s reviews almost as much … Continue reading
Land and Sea – Nova Scotia Schooners
In the United States, we have seen an explosion of so-called “reality TV,” which is usually more akin to unscripted soap opera than reality, fortunately. In Canada, however, the CBC has some wonderful programming which is reality television in … Continue reading
Posted in Current, Lore of the Sea, Seastories, Ships
Tagged "Land and Sea", CBC, Nova Scotia, schooners
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Remembering Dr. James Guthrie, the Real Dr. Stephen Maturin ?
On Facebook this morning, Maritime Great Britain linked to a post on THE DEAR SURPRISE blog, discussing a post by Marion Elizabeth Diamond on the Historians are Past Caring blog, which raised the question, “Was this the real Stephen Maturin?” Ms. Diamond answers … Continue reading
Underwater Volcano Shuts El Hierro Island Port in Canary Islands
Last month we posted about Kick’em Jenny, an active underwater volcano off Grenada in the Caribbean, which was last active in 2001. Now the eruption of an active underwater volcano off El Hierro Island, in the Canary Islands off the … Continue reading
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Tagged Canary Islands, El Hierro Island, La Restinga, underwater volcano
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John Masefield and Sea Fever
I can’t decide whether I love or hate John Masefield‘s poem Sea Fever. I lean strongly towards love, though the poem has been repeated so many times and in so many places, that it is hard not to groan every time it … Continue reading
CHARLOTTE – A Wooden Boat Story
The Gannon & Benjamin Marine Railway, located on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, must be a pretty amazing place. In July of 2010, we reviewed Schooner – Building a Wooden Boat on Martha’s Vineyard, which was about building a schooner … Continue reading
Jack Tar: Life in Nelson’s Navy by Roy & Leslie Adkins – A Review
Over the next several weeks, we will be reviewing a series of books about what life was like in Nelson’s navy. The first is Jack Tar: Life in Nelson’s Navy by Roy & Leslie Adkins, subtitled “the extraordinary lives of ordinary seamen … Continue reading
Posted in Lore of the Sea, Reviews, Seastories
Tagged Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy, Leslie Adkins, Roy Adkins
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Deadly Straits by R.E. McDermott – A Review
For the sake of full disclosure, I am not a huge fans of thrillers, particularly thrillers involving ships. The plots often strike me as implausible and the descriptions of the ships and ship operations often border on the laughable. (Too … Continue reading
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Dolphin Sunday – Part 1: Dolphin Tale, a Review
Today, we have three posts about dolphins and humans interacting. I went to high school on the Gulf Coast of Florida, which has some of the largest bottlenose dolphin populations in the world. When I am in Florida visiting family, I … Continue reading
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Linda Collison Interviews Alaric Bond
I have really enjoyed Linda Collison‘s two books in her Patricia MacPherson nautical adventure series. (See our reviews of Star-Crossed and Surgeon’s Mate.) She is also an excellent interviewer. Here she interviews another favorite nautical writer and frequent contributor to this blog, Alaric Bond. (See also Linda’s … Continue reading
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Tom Grundner, Owner of Fireship Press
There aren’t many publishers with a special interest in nautical fiction. Tom Grundner, the owner of Fireship Press, who died suddenly on September 11th, was one. I never had the chance to meet him in person, but I genuinely liked the man I knew only through … Continue reading
The Cutler Family Chronicals Trailer
A new trailer for William C. Hammond’s Cutler family Chronicles. The Cutler Family Chronicals Trailer Seu browser não suporta iframes. The Cutler Family Chronicles is a projected seven-book series profiling the best of American duty, honor and courage during the … Continue reading
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How to Survive the Titanic, or the Sinking of J Bruce Ismay by Frances Wilson
What more can be written about the Titanic? In a book recently released in Great Britain and coming out this October in the US, Francis Wilson looks at the sinking and the impact on one of the more famous survivors – J. Bruce … Continue reading
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Tagged Francis Wilson, J. Bruce Ismay, Titanic
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