Call 860.572.5339 to register for the series.
2010 Maritime Author Series
January 27, February 24, March 24, April 28, 2010
5:30-7:30pm
Meet the authors firsthand, hear the inside story of how each book came to be written and enjoy a wine and cheese reception. The lucky raffle winner takes home a free copy of the author's book!
January 27
Maritime historian, educator, and acclaimed author Mary Malloy speaks about the difference between writing maritime history and historical fiction. Her 2006 book Devil on the Deep Blue Sea: The Notorious Career of Captain Samuel Hill of Boston was described by Nathaniel Philbrick as "a tour de force -- fascinating, highly readable, and meticulously researched," and won the John Lyman Book Award for best Maritime Biography that year. In her new novel, The Wandering Heart, a maritime historian solves a medieval mystery using the tools of the historian's trade, including logbooks, letters, paintings and objects. <Buy Tickets>
February 24
Ann Davidson grew up in Port Williams, Nova Scotia, just a few miles from Grand-Pre, the location for her haunting Cajun novel, Catherine's Cadeau. With co-author Terry Thibodeaux (a Cajun descendent), their historical novel is based on the horrific deportation of 11,000 peaceful French Acadian farmers by the British Government in 1755 -- an often overlooked part of American history. Exile ships carried the Acadians to coastal towns in America, including nearby New London, and to Louisiana, where the culture known as "Cajun" developed. <Buy Tickets>
March 24
Stephen J. W. Platzer has been sailing since childhood, and in 1982 he served as radio operator on the transatlantic voyage of bringing a Gloucester fishing vessel from Cape Verde to America. Bringing E Home is the story of the 3,400 mile trip, entirely under sail, steering by the stars, based on his journal entries. The journey included weeks of becalmed seas, unexpected squalls, and close encounters with freighters as the fourteen sailors learned to survive and thrive on the 105-foot vessel. <Buy Tickets>
April 28
Noted maritime author William H. White brings to life the engrossing story of the HMS Pandora and her quest to find the Bounty mutineers and bring them back to justice in England. When Fortune Frowns is the story of this 1790 voyage, the capture of the remaining mutineers, and the perilous and disastrous return trip. Storms, tropical islands, monotony, and shipwreck all figure into this epic tale carefully researched from original documents, including a study of the Pandora's logbook. <Buy Tickets>
$50 Member for the series; $15 per program
$65 Non-members for the series; $20 per program.
Please call the Membership office at 860.572.5339 to register for this series.
This program is co-sponsored by the Museum's Library Fellows. For further information about the organization, contact Paul J. O'Pecko, Library Director, at collections@mysticseaport.org.