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Voyage of the Eclipse (Paperback)

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Spring 1802, the apex of the lucrative Pacific maritime fur trade. After troubled encounters in the South Pacific and Hawai'i, the crew of the Boston brig Eclipse gamble their lives on the Alaskan coast amid furiously competitive English and American ships, Russian fur hunters, and hostile Tlingit clans. Filled with hubris, Captain Jonathan Fletcher leads Eclipse to the brink of catastrophe and finds his relationship with a Hawaiian female sailor, Alamea, strained to the breaking point. Clever and beautiful, Alamea grows closer to Second Mate Joshua Hall after his daring rescue of a slave boy in a Tlingit village. Exasperated over Fletcher's reckless decisions, and anxious to find his troubled older brother Elias Hall, Joshua concludes slavery and oblivion will be the crew's fate unless he confronts the captain.

In the ensuing struggle Eclipse crew members battle powerful adversaries and each other to survive. Through a tempest of depravity and disorder, Joshua and Alamea spearhead their crew's fight for redemption on an unforgiving shore.

About the Author


Erik T. Hirschmann is a Professor of History at Matanuska-Susitna College, University of Alaska Anchorage, where he has taught since 2003. He holds a Ph.D. in American and U.S. West History from the University of New Mexico. Born in San Francisco, Erik grew up backpacking in the mountains of northern California and sailing on San Francisco Bay.

Praise For…


"The author, a history professor, is well acquainted with the conditions of the time, and his text is rich with wonderful period details...Hirschmann succeeds in communicating the harshness of the era through the youth of the sailors, their distance from home, the general lawlessness of the time, and the ruthless exploitation of local populations. Stopovers in remote places like the Juan Fernandez Islands drive home the far-flung geography of the Age of Sail."-- Kirkus Reviews

Product Details
ISBN: 9781684920518
ISBN-10: 1684920515
Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA)
Publication Date: March 14th, 2023
Pages: 286
Language: English