RESOURCES
The Code Black and Blackwell’s Adventures books are works of fiction. All the characters, organizations, and events portrayed are either products of my imagination or are used fictitiously. Any errors, omissions, etc., are naturally my own. – V.E. Ulett
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Below is a list of resources for actual historical and cultural detail.
Of God, and World Religions
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The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman’s Journey to Love and Islam, by G. Willow Wilson
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No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, by Reza Aslan
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When God Was A Woman, by Merlin Stone
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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, by Geraldine Brooks
Eighteenth – Nineteenth Century Women, Women at Sea
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The Education of Women and the Vices of Men, Two Qajar Tracts, translated from the Persian and with an introduction by Hasan Javadi and Willem Floor
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Customs and Manners of the Women of Persia and Their Domestic Superstitions, translated from the Original Persian Manuscript by James Atkinson
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Eleanor’s Odyssey, by Joan Druett
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Hen Frigates: Passion and Peril, Nineteenth-Century Women at Sea, by Joan Druett
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Female Tars: women aboard ship in the age of sail, by Suzanne J. Stark
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Jane Austin: Her Life, by Park Honan
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Pauline Bonaparte, by Flora Fraser
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Emma Hamilton, by Norah Lofts
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Mistress of the Elgin Marbles, a Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin, by Susan Nagel
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Jane Austen and the Navy, by Brian Southam
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Naval Wives and Mistresses, by Margarette Lincoln
Pacific Island and Indigenous Cultures
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Tupaia, by Joan Druett
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond
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Anahulu, Volume One, The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii, by Patrick V. Kirch and Marshall Sahlins
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International Rivalry in the Pacific 1800 – 1875, by Jean Ingram Brookes
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals, by J. Maarten Troost
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Island, How Islands Transform the World, by J. Edward Chamberlin
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The Book of Voyages, ed. Patrick O’Brian
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Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, in the Years 1824-1825, by Lady Maria Callcott and Baron George Anson Byron Byron and Richard Rowland Bloxam
Shipwreck and survival stories
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Lady Castaways, by Joan Druett
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An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean, by William Mariner
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Skeletons of the Zahara, by Dean King
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The White Headhunter: The Story of a 19th-Century Sailor Who Survived a South Seas Heart of Darkness, by Nigel Randell
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The Elephant Voyage, by Joan Druett
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Crusoe, Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox, and the Creation of a Myth, by Katherine Frank
Primary source material
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A Lady’s Captivity Among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas, translated from the French of Mademoiselle Fanny Loviot by Amelia B. Edwards
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A Voyage to the South Atlantic and Round Cape Horn to the Pacific Ocean, by James Colnett
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Journal of a Residence in Chile During the Year 1822, and a Voyage from Chile to Brazil in 1823, by Maria Graham, ed. Jennifer Hayward
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Diary and Letters of Madame D’Arblay, by Frances Burney
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Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier, by Jakob Walter, ed. Marc Raeff
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The Wynne Diaries 1789 – 1820, by Elizabeth Wynne, ed. Anne Fremantle
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Augustus Hervey’s Journal, by Augustus Hervey, ed. David Erskine
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Five Naval Journals 1789 – 1817, ed. Rear-Admiral H.G. Thursfield, F.S.A.
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The Dispatches & Letters of Lord Nelson, Volume V, January 1802 – April 1804, ed. Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, G.C.M.G.
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Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana
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The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex, by Owen Chase
Naval and Military
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Men-of-War: Life in Nelson’s Navy, by Patrick O’Brian
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The Eyes of the Fleet, A Popular History of Frigates and Frigate Captains, 1793 – 1815, by Anthony Price
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Every Man will do his duty: an anthology of first-hand accounts from the age of Nelson, 1793 – 1815, by Dean King
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Six Frigates, by Ian W. Toll
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The Mammoth Book of Life Before the Mast, ed. Jon E. Lewis
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Nelson’s Navy: the ships, men, and organization, 1793 – 1815, by Brian Lavery
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Sea Battles in Close-Up: The Age of Nelson, by David Lyon
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Cochrane, the Real Master and Commander, by David Cordingly
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Lord Cochrane, by Christopher Lloyd
Regency England
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The Regency Companion, by Sharon H. Laudermilk, Teresa L. Hamlin
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Passion and Principle, the Loves and Lives of Regency Women, by Jane Aiken Hodge
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The Prince of Pleasure and His Regency, by J.B. Priestley
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Regency London, by Stella Margetson
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Our Tempestuous Day, by Carolly Erickson
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An Elegant Madness, by Venetia Murray
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Mrs Hurst Dancing & other scenes from Regency Life 1812 – 1823, Watercolours by Diana Sperling, text by Gordon Mingay
Eighteenth – Nineteenth Century Life
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The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science, by Richard Holmes
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Life in the English Country House, by Mark Girouard
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Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
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Byron, by Elizabeth Longford
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The Duel: A History of Duelling, by Robert Baldrick
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The Immortal Dinner: a famous evening of genius & laughter in literary London, 1817, by Penelope Hughes-Hallett
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European Thought and Culture in the 19th Century, by Lloyd Kramer
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The Book of Abigail and John: selected letters of the Adams family, 1765 – 1784, by Abigail Adams, John Adams, Lyman Henry Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline
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This Republic of Suffering, by Drew Gilpin Faust
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Joseph Banks: A Life, by Patrick O’Brian
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John Adams, by David G. McCullough
General Seafaring
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Under the Black Flag, by David Cordingly
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Jack Aubrey Commands: an historical companion to the naval world of Patrick O’Brian, by Brian Lavery
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Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum
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A Sea of Words , by Dean King, with John B. Hattendorf and J. Worth Estes
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Harbors and High Seas, by Dean King, with John B. Hattendorf
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The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger