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This evening I’ve been invited to join Lisa Goodwin and Women Who Sail New England<\/em> who will be discussing Surgeon’s Mate<\/em>; the second novel in Patricia MacPherson’s Nautical Adventures.<\/p>\n Looking back on the historical nautical trilogy, it feels like a past life I lived — a life that first made itself known to me during the fall of 1999, in the middle of the North Pacific aboard H.M. Bark Endeavour.<\/em> This Endeavour<\/em> is the seaworthy Australian-built replica of the 18th century, three masted former collier commanded by James Cook. Signing on as voyage crew, my husband Bob and I found ourselves among forty-some newbies, counted on to learn the ropes. We were to hand, reef, steer — and more — on our three week passage from Vancouver to Hawaii, part of HM Bark Endeavour<\/em>‘s circumnavigation that year.<\/p>\n The shipboard experience launched me on a personal, interior voyage back into time to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to deeply imagine a particular life. Since that passage on Endeavour<\/em>, I have sailed many thousands of nautical miles with my husband, aboard a 36-foot sailboat, I read dozens of books, went back to college and got a degree in history, and wrote four novels set at sea, and several articles.<\/p>\n These days I’m ashore, still reading and writing about history,not always nautical. Currently, I’m working on a documentary film project about the evolution of sport skydiving in America, and beyond. Like water, the air connects us all.<\/p>\n Original cover of Surgeon’s Mate<\/p><\/div>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This evening I’ve been invited to join Lisa Goodwin and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[600,247,421,408,22,609,105,85],"tags":[661,660,27],"class_list":["post-9871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author-readings-and-other-events","category-books","category-historical-fiction","category-nautical-writing","category-patricia-macpherson-nautical-adventure-series","category-women-aboard","category-women-sailors","category-writing-and-publishing","tag-book-club-pick","tag-sailing-women","tag-surgeons-mate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9871"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9875,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871\/revisions\/9875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lindacollison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/surgeonsmate-200x300.jpg\")