Photo by Robert Cross. Draft of Mary Rose by David Meagher
BOOKS
NOVELS
Deadly Shoals
Run Afoul
Shark Island
A Watery Grave
A Promise of Gold
Murder at the Brian Boru (sequel)
Abigail
Deadly Shoals
Run Afoul
Shark Island
A Watery Grave
A Promise of Gold
Murder at the Brian Boru (sequel)
Abigail
MARITIME HISTORY
Tupaia
Island of the Lost
In the Wake of Madness
Rough Medicine
She Captains
Hen Frigates
The Sailing Circle (with Mary Anne Wallace)
Captain's Daughter, Coasterman's Wife
She Was a Sister Sailor
Petticoat Whalers
Fulbright in New Zealand
Exotic Intruders
Tupaia
Island of the Lost
In the Wake of Madness
Rough Medicine
She Captains
Hen Frigates
The Sailing Circle (with Mary Anne Wallace)
Captain's Daughter, Coasterman's Wife
She Was a Sister Sailor
Petticoat Whalers
Fulbright in New Zealand
Exotic Intruders
Selected Works
Biography
The story of the extraordinary -- but unacknowledged -- Polynesian who ensured the success of Cook's first discovery voyage
A first Wiki Coffin Mystery
Murder most foul in Portsmouth, Virginia, is solved in the middle of the Atlantic.
A Wiki Coffin maritime mystery
Pirate-hunting on the coast of Brazil
A Wiki Coffin Mystery
Wiki Coffin must clear his father's name of murder in this third seafaring mystery set aboard the U.S. Exploring Expedition
A Wiki Coffin mystery set in Patagonia
Wiki Coffin joins the Patagonian gauchos to solve a grotesque murder
Castaway drama
A gripping tale of two starkly contrasting castaway experiences
Revenge at Sea
Murder and rebellion on the whaleship Sharon.
Women Under Sail
Heroines and hellions of the sea.
Captains' wives at sea.
Surgeons under sail.
Whaling surgeons in South Seas.
Quick Links
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Random House New Zealand
Publishers of TUPAIA, THE REMARKABLE STORY OF CAPTAIN COOK'S POLYNESIAN NAVIGATOR
My Works
TUPAIA, CAPTAIN COOK'S POLYNESIAN NAVIGATOR
He was an expert navigator who drew a chart of the Pacific encompassing 2,500 miles and locating nearly 100 islands totally unknown to Europeans, despite having no experience as a mapmaker. This man was also a translator, an artist, and a high priest, a brilliant orator, and a most devious politician. A European erudite? No, merely the greatest known Polynesian navigator of the 18th century.
He was an expert navigator who drew a chart of the Pacific encompassing 2,500 miles and locating nearly 100 islands totally unknown to Europeans, despite having no experience as a mapmaker. This man was also a translator, an artist, and a high priest, a brilliant orator, and a most devious politician. A European erudite? No, merely the greatest known Polynesian navigator of the 18th century.
A Watery Grave
In the first book of the Wiki Coffin maritime mystery series, Wiki embarks as linguister for the US Exploring Expedition. Though beset by enemies, and under a cloud of suspicion himself, his mission is to expose a vicious, opportunistic murderer.
In the first book of the Wiki Coffin maritime mystery series, Wiki embarks as linguister for the US Exploring Expedition. Though beset by enemies, and under a cloud of suspicion himself, his mission is to expose a vicious, opportunistic murderer.
Shark Island
Forsythe leads Wiki and George into dangerous waters where both sharks and men kill
Forsythe leads Wiki and George into dangerous waters where both sharks and men kill
Run Afoul
Ordered by Captain Wilkes to shift his berth to the flagship Vincennes, Wiki is faced with a whole new set of trials and tribulations, not the least being blamed for the sudden grave illness of one of the scientific corps. Could Wiki have ever imagined that his former arch-enemy, Lieut. Forsythe, would be all that stands between him and a terrible fate?
Ordered by Captain Wilkes to shift his berth to the flagship Vincennes, Wiki is faced with a whole new set of trials and tribulations, not the least being blamed for the sudden grave illness of one of the scientific corps. Could Wiki have ever imagined that his former arch-enemy, Lieut. Forsythe, would be all that stands between him and a terrible fate?
Deadly Shoals
Contracted to track down the man who stole a sealing schooner, instead Wiki Coffin finds a skull at the foot of a sacred Gualichu tree in the stark hinterland of the Rio Negro.
Contracted to track down the man who stole a sealing schooner, instead Wiki Coffin finds a skull at the foot of a sacred Gualichu tree in the stark hinterland of the Rio Negro.
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
The amazing story of two sets of castaways who were wrecked on the same desolate, uninhabited island at the same time, but never came into contact with each other. They were faced with the same challenge but met it with different attitudes -- a contrast that made all the difference between life and death.
The amazing story of two sets of castaways who were wrecked on the same desolate, uninhabited island at the same time, but never came into contact with each other. They were faced with the same challenge but met it with different attitudes -- a contrast that made all the difference between life and death.
In the Wake of Madness
Having spent my life immersed in Pacific culture, I was convinced that the truth behind the murder of Norris by three Islanders had never been told. Nothing, though, prepared me for the horror I found in the private journals and papers of two crew members of the Sharon, the third officer, Benjamin Clough, and Andrew White, the ship’s cooper. The story they revealed gave me nightmares, but I was compelled to set the record straight.
Having spent my life immersed in Pacific culture, I was convinced that the truth behind the murder of Norris by three Islanders had never been told. Nothing, though, prepared me for the horror I found in the private journals and papers of two crew members of the Sharon, the third officer, Benjamin Clough, and Andrew White, the ship’s cooper. The story they revealed gave me nightmares, but I was compelled to set the record straight.
Rough Medicine
The strange adventures of the medical men who tended to the hard-drinking, hard-living crews of South Seamen.
The strange adventures of the medical men who tended to the hard-drinking, hard-living crews of South Seamen.
Hen Frigates
Stories of the brave, flamboyant wives of merchant captains who voyaged the world on sailing ships.
Stories of the brave, flamboyant wives of merchant captains who voyaged the world on sailing ships.