Old Salt Press: 19 books

Cover of Robber Crabs, A Wiki Coffin Mystery Story
by JOAN DRUETT
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015

Wiki had been enjoying life in the East Indies and the South China Sea.  He could speak the local language, so had sailed happily on coastwise craft in the company of Bugis rogues and pirates. But then George Rochester had arrived on the Potomac, and while it had been delightful to get together with...
Cover of Eleanor's Odyssey: Journal of the Captain’s Wife on the East Indiaman Friendship 1799-1801
by JOAN DRUETT
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017

It was 1799, and French privateers lurked in the Atlantic and the Bay of Bengal. Yet Eleanor Reid, newly married and just twenty-one years old, made up her mind to sail with her husband, Captain Hugh Reid, to the Pacific, the Spice Islands and India. Danger threatened not just from the barely charted...
Cover of The Torrid Zone

The Torrid Zone

The Fighting Sail Series, #6

by Alaric Bond
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014

A tired ship with a worn out crew, but HMS Scylla has one more trip to make before her much postponed re-fit. Bound for St Helena, she is to deliver the island's next governor; a simple enough mission and, as peace looks likely to be declared, no one is expecting difficulties. Except, perhaps, the...
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HMS Prometheus

The Fighting Sail Series, #8

by Alaric Bond
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015

Autumn 1803, and Britain remains under the threat of invasion. HMS Prometheus is needed to reinforce Nelson's squadron blockading the French off Toulon, but a major action has left her severely damaged and the British Fleet outnumbered. Prometheus must be brought back to fighting order without delay,...
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The Scent of Corruption

The Fighting Sail Series, #7

by Alaric Bond
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015

Summer, 1803: the uneasy peace with France is over, and Britain has once more been plunged into the turmoil of war. After a spell on the beach, Sir Richard Banks is appointed to HMS Prometheus, a seventy-four gun line-of-battleship which an eager Admiralty loses no time in ordering to sea. The ship...
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The Blackstrap Station

The Fighting Sail Series, #9

by Alaric Bond
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016

Christmas 1803, although the group of shipwrecked Royal Navy seamen have anything but festivities in mind as they pitch their wits against a French force sent to catch them. And all the while rescue, in the shape of a British frigate, lies temptingly close, yet just beyond their reach... Encompassing...
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Honour Bound

The Fighting Sail Series, #10

by Alaric Bond
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017

Satisfied that he has forged HMS Kestrel into a formidable weapon, Commander King is keen to take her to sea once more. But the war is not progressing well for Britain, and his hopes of remaining in Malta are shattered as Kestrel is moved closer to the action.And so begins a story that covers...
Cover of Tupaia, Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator
by JOAN DRUETT
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2018

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. This man was also a translator, an artist, a high priest, a brilliant orator, and a most devious politician. A European polymath? No, merely the greatest...
Cover of The Beckoning Ice

The Beckoning Ice

Wiki Coffin mysteries, #5

by JOAN DRUETT
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017

The fifth in the Wiki Coffin series find the U.S. Exploring Expedition off Cape Horn, a grim outpost made still more threatening by the report of a corpse on a drifting iceberg, closely followed by a gruesome death on board.  Was it suicide, or a particularly brutal murder?  Wiki investigates, only to find himself fighting desperately for his own life.
Cover of Lady Castaways
by JOAN DRUETT
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017

It was not just the men who lived on the brink of peril when 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, The Elephant Voyage), relates the stories of women...
Cover of The Dragon Stone

The Dragon Stone

The Money Ship, #3

by JOAN DRUETT
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017

Condemned to death by the Sultan of Brunei, Nelson O'Cain seeks to save himself with a tattoo of a dragon -- a rampant dragon with wings outstretched, the same dragon that was carved on a obelisk on a small island at the mouth of a river in Borneo. Not only was the pillar supposed to be a man who...
Cover of The Money Ship
by JOAN DRUETT
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018

Money ships were wrecks of treasure-galleons belched up from the bottom of the sea after tremendous storms, yielding doubloons and all kinds of precious treasure ... gold bars and bullion, chests of brilliant gems... Oriental adventurer Captain Rochester spun an entrancing tale to Jerusha,...
Cover of The Launching of the Huntress

The Launching of the Huntress

The Money Ship, #1

by JOAN DRUETT
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017

Money ships were wrecks of treasure-galleons that were belched up from the bottom of the sea after tremendous storms, yielding doubloons and all other kinds of precious treasure ... gold bars and bullion, chests of brilliant gems. Though just a story Jerusha Gardiner heard in childhood, it led to...
Cover of The Privateer Brig

The Privateer Brig

The Money Ship, #2

by JOAN DRUETT
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017

On a shimmering morning on the Moluccan Sea young Jerusha is sent by her father, Captain Michael Gardiner, to pay a call on a mysterious brig that had arrived in the night. Not only is the dashing craft more piratical than Jess had expected but the man who hailed her as she clambered on board is as...
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