Steamboat on the River
New York: William Sloane Associates, 1952. Cosgrave II, John O'hara. Book Club Edition. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. A frontier romance about a young man on a hazardous river journey with Abe Lincoln.
Historical fiction tells a story that is set in the past. That setting is usually real and drawn from history, and often contains actual historical persons, but the main characters tend to be fictional.
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt. ----- Guy Vanderhaeghe
New York: William Sloane Associates, 1952. Cosgrave II, John O'hara. Book Club Edition. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. A frontier romance about a young man on a hazardous river journey with Abe Lincoln.
New York & Chicago: Congdon & Weed, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. In the alternate medieval history Turtledove proposes that Muhammed converted to Christianity in lieu of founding Islam and this allowed the Roman Empire to flourish and expand..... intelligent, colorful tales honorably.....
New York: Del Rey, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. At its best, alternate history holds a mirror to our society, allowing us to understand our own past by examining hypothetical responses to similar but altered conditions in real or imagined worlds.In the latest.....
New York: Tor Books, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. In a complex fantasy world on the very edge of human history, Engibil, the easy-going god of the city of Gibil, is threatened by the gods of other cities who do not allow their.....
New York: Baen, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. When King Avram, the new ruler of Detina, announces his intent to free the serfs upon which the northern provinces of his country depend, Detina erupts in a fierce civil war between the North and.....
New York: Dodd Mead, 1945. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Gustav Vasa, is celebrated as a hero who liberated Sweden from Danish control. Hendrik Willem van Loon was a Dutch-American historian and journalist. He was a professor of history at Cornell University (1915-17) Writing many other popular.....
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. The Blazed Trail is the story of early lumbermen in the northern woods of Michigan. The novel portrays the challenges faced by the workers focusing on one, Harry Thorpe, as he endeavors to be successful though completely unskilled when he enters the woods.....
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. The author was an American author and spiritualist whose writing focused on nature and human nature at a time when America was starting to lose its vast wilderness. He wrote Westerns, camping journals, outdoor adventure fiction that incorporated historical details.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. The Rules of the Game is a captivating novel that explores the complexities of human nature and the pursuit of power in 19th century California, with her beautiful forests and mountains, and the severe battle for the preservation of nature between the Government and.....
Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. 'Smoothly readable, quick-paced.' [ Kirkus Reviews] Hank Prince is a baseball player turned private eye in Atlanta. Literate, flip and often drunk, Prince wakens from a binge to learn that an old friend, Tony Browning, a small-time drug.....
New York: Walker & Comapny, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Earl St Vincent, first lord of the admiralty, appoints Captain Drinwater to the Melusine in order to challenge the naval forces of Napoleon in the whaling waters around Greenland. Richard Woodman is an.....
London: John Murray, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. This historical novel finds Drinkwater on a secret assignment for the crown while Napoleon continues to acquire real estate. Drinkwater is soon at odds with his crew and hamstrung by his drunken first mate.
London: John Murray, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. The Year is 1813. Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater succeeds Lord Dungarth as head of the Royal Navy's Secret Department. In a compelling narrative the author brings vividly to life conditions at sea during the Napoleonic wars.....
New York: Walker & Co, 1986. Good in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. During the Baltic expedition in 1801, Lieutenant Nathaniel Drinkwater, determined to turn the old "Virago" back into a fighting ship, gets caught up in Sit Hyde Parkers's fleet and must fight to save the ship and his.....
New York: Severn House Publishers, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. In this unique novel of seamanship, rivalry and romance, the CARYATID'S course and the Harbour Master's ambitions move towards collision on the lovely island of Ynyscraven second home to the CARYATID'S crew. [FF]'Action.....
New York: Severn House Publishers, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Captain James St John Stanier, formerly Porth Ardur's ambitious Harbour Master, has now been promoted to Commissioner of Celtic Lighthouses. And from this elevated position he is determined to get one over on.....
New York: Severn House Publishers, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Based on what little is known of the ships journey overloaded cargo, bad-blood amongst the crew and a curse we are told a story of greed, horror, deprivation and unimaginable hardship by.....
London: Little, Brown, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Captain John Mackinnon and his ship, the Matthew Flinders, are embarking on their last voyage. Both endangered species, they symbolize the irreversible, quiet decline of the British merchant fleet. But this journey to Hong Kong.....
England: Severn House Publishers, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. An exhilarating high seas adventure set during the English Civil War. 1649. England has been torn asunder by a civil war that has pitted Parliamentarians against Royalists. Captain Kit Faulkner, bound to the Royalist.....
New York: St Martins Press, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. In 1807, Drinkwater is once again sent on a semisecret mission by spymaster Lord Dungarth ( A Baltic Mission ), is tempted by a foreign beauty ( A Brig of War ) and.....
London: John Murray, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater brings his frigate to the China Coast. A trade war between the East India company, the moguls of Canton and the independent traders rages, and Drinkwater's task becomes complicated. He is forced.....
New York: The Dial Press, 1967. Book Club Edition. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Describes ancient Sparta and the Peloponnesian War with Athens.