Sheridan House imprint: 38 books

Flirting with Mermaids

The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper

by John Kretschmer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003

Over the course of twenty years of delivering sailboats to far-flung quaysides, John Kretschmer has had innumerable adventures, both humorous and terrifying. in Flirting with Mermaids, he recounts the most memorable of them. He crosses the Western Caribbean with a crew of eccentric Swedes researching...
by Violet Jessop
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012

Violet Jessop's life is an inspiring story of survival. Born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age of 21 she became the breadwinner for her widowed mother and five siblings when she commenced a career as a stewardess and nurse on some of the most famous ocean going...
by Richard Henry Dana, Rod Scher
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013

A true story of the battered life of a foremast crewman, Two Years Before the Mast is Richard Henry Dana’s classic travel narrative, which inspired canonical works such as Moby Dick and Sailing Alone Around the World. As Rod Scher follows Dana (the Harvard dropout-turned-sailor) on his voyages around...
by Courtenay Latimer
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2005

Presents a voyage undertaken by twelve people on a North Sea trawler in 1959, from England to New Zealand with adventures along the way.
by Bernard Moitessier
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995

The Long Way is Bernard Moitessier's own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden Globe Race, a solo, non-stop circumnavigation rounding the three great Capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin, and the Horn. For seven months, the veteran seafarer battled storms, doldrums, gear-failures, knock-downs,...

Caribbean Passagemaking

A Cruiser's Guide

by Les Weatheritt
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015

The chain of islands from the Virgins to the southern Lesser Antilles is one of the most desirable tropical cruising grounds as well as the most accessible for North American and European sailors. The Caribbean Sea is usually benign, but the conditions are very different from your home waters—you...

1805

#6 A Nathanial Drinkwater Novel

by Richard Woodman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001

In the tradition of C.S. Forester, ex-sailor Richard Woodman brings history to life in a rousing tale of daring deeds and clashing cutlasses. it is the summer of 1804 and Napoleon is massing his vast army for the invasion of England. His powerful Combined Fleet is preparing to meet Admiral Nelson's...

The Bomb Vessel

#4 A Nathaniel Drinkwater Novel

by Richard Woodman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000

A young captain Nathaniel Drinkwater is given command of an old Ship, the Virago, to be sent to the Baltic as a bomb vessel. Drinkwater’s ambition is to turn it back into a fighting ship, but his plans are thwarted. At the same time, Drinkwater’s brother appeals for help in his desperate attempt...
by Richard Woodman
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2000

This modern seafaring epic follows the Martin family through nearly 70 years of British maritime history.

An Eye of the Fleet

A Nathaniel Drinkwater Novel

by Richard Woodman
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001

Nathaniel Drinkwater's life at sea begins with the HMS CYCLOPS' capture of the SANTA TERESA during Admiral Rodney's dramatic Moonlight Battle of 1780. Subsequently, Drinkwater's courage and initiative are put to the test as the CYCLOPS pursues American privateers threatening British trade and is later...

The Flying Squadron

#11 A Nathaniel Drinkwater Novel

by Richard Woodman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1999

It is 1811 and Napoleon’s French Empire dominates Europe. Desperate to stem the encroaching French tide and avert war with the emerging power of the United States, the Royal Navy orders Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater to the Chesapeake Bay to heal the rift between London and Washington. Quite by chance,...

A Private Revenge

#9 A Nathaniel Drinkwater Novel

by Richard Woodman
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1999

Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater brings the frigate Patrician to the Pearl River on the China coast and finds himself caught up in bizarre events.

The Corvette

#5 A Nathaniel Drinkwater Novel

by Richard Woodman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000

The frozen splendor of the Arctic Ocean and the absorbing drama of a nineteenth century whale hunt unfold as Drinkwater escorts a whaling fleet to Greenland and meets disaster, treachery and death.

A Brig of War

#3 A Nathaniel Drinkwater Novel

by Richard Woodman
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2001

In A Brig of War, Nathaniel Drinkwater is promoted lieutenant of the brig Hellebore. He finds routine convoy escort duties end abruptly when Admiral Nelson, pursuing the French fleet to Egypt, sends Hellebore to the Red Sea with an urgent warning to the British squadron there. However, Nelson’s...
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