Captain Marta, former novice nun and now captain of a Confederate blockade runner, slips into the Confederacy in its final... More > days in a desperate mission to rescue Jefferson Davis and his family. < Less

Eight short stories designed to arouse and titillate a woman

In 1968 Brian Crawford was a traveling hippie. Busted for peyote in South Texas, upon his release he went searching for his... More > guitar, girlfriend, and stash box, and found them in Fort Worth, along with a wonderful community of Texas hippies. Three illustrations. < Less

The story of Archibald Campbell, a young Scottish seaman who was shipwrecked in the Aleutians in 1807. They built a boat and... More > sailed to Kodiak for help, but were again shipwrecked on their return voyage. Campbell lost both feet to frostbite. He made his way to Hawai'i and found work as a sailmaker to Kamehameha. A remarkable story of survival. < Less

Brian Crawford was a twenty-year-old hippie, hitch-hiking around the country sampling every psychedelic experience he could... More > find. One day in Boulder, Colorado, he met a mysterious stranger with something new – peyote, the magic cactus.

With his girlfriend Elissa, the bizarre and paranoid Mike just returned from Vietnam, Sara the seductress, and fellow travelers Sean and Chris, he set off in a red 1947 Cadillac ambulance in an odyssey through the southwest in search of the places where peyote was rumored to grow. They found what they were looking for, and more.

Threatened by vigilantes, busted by Immigration, he and Mike spent a week in jail and met and educated some of the local kids. In the process, he learned as much about himself as the strange world of the psychedelic cactus. Later, he was taken in by a gentle commune in Fort Worth and became part of the local hippie legend. Three illustrations, 160 pages. < Less

The true story of William Mariner, a 15-year-old English boy who was captured by the Tongans in 1806 and lived there for... More > four years. Extensively researched and annotated. Includes a glossary, bibliography, and appendices. Hardbound edition. < Less

In 1973, American hippie Brian Crawford signed on as navigator of the Australian nuclear protest yacht Warana in the Kingdom... More > of Tonga. With a crew of misfits, they sailed to Fiji, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, and Australia, then took part in the 1973 Sydney-Hobart open ocean race. Filled with interesting characters, nautical adventures, and exotic locations in a more innocent time. Twenty-five illustrations. < Less

A pastiche of a swashbuckling adventure tale in honor of my skipper Marty. A romantic adventure yarn of the Confederate navy.

My twenty months in the "para-naval" group The Summerland Pirates in the early seventies. The group bought and sold military... More > equipment to raise money to buy a schooner in Nova Scotia and sail it to the Caribbean to search for Spanish treasure. Eighteen illustrations. < Less

In 1806, British teenager William Mariner was captured by Finau 'ulukalala, ruler of the Kingdom of Tonga in the South... More > Pacific. Mariner spent four years as Finau's adopted son, taking part in their wars, ceremonies, and social life. His vivid account of his adventures forms the best description of Polynesian society before it was altered forever by the coming of the missionaries. < Less