The true story of William Mariner, a 15-year-old English boy who was captured by the Tongans in 1806 and lived there for four years. Extensively researched and annotated. Includes a glossary, bibliography, and appendices. Hardbound edition.
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When the British privateer Port au Prince put into the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga in December 1806, her crew was seeking help. But the Tongan king Finau attacked the ship, killing half the crew and enslaving the rest. The voyage ended in disaster and death.But for one young Englishman, fifteen-year-old William Mariner, a whole new adventure had just begun. Finau adopted Mariner, giving him the name of his beloved dead son, Toki. Alone and terrified, Mariner quickly learned to adapt to his new life. He learned the language fluently and soon rose from slave to a member of the noble class. He led armies into combat, took part in the sports and social lives of the Tongan nobles, and eventually became the lord of his own plantation. He and Finau's family formed a deep friendship that spanned the vast differences between their cultures.This fascinating novel retells Mariner's true story, bringing to vibrant life a courageous young man coming of age in an alien society. Intelligent, perceptive, and astute, Mariner found the Tongans admirable and intelligent and provided the outside world with its first intimate account of their society, language, religion, and customs. For the Tongan people, it is the primary source for the culture and way of life that was changed forever by the missionaries who arrived soon after Mariner left.Brian Crawford lived in Tonga and visited the sites of Mariner's adventures. He interviewed Tongan historians, consulted British, Tongan, and Australian libraries and documents, and spent thirty years in research. Fully documented and annotated, much of this material has never before been published. He lives now in Marin County, California.
Desert Moon and Other Stories
Brian K Crawford
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2011
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Fourteen very unusual and diverse stories by Marin County author Brian K. Crawford. From the desert to the South Pacific, from the creation of life to a space-traveling future, from an intimate conversation with a dead wife to the "loopy" nature of time, these stories will inspire thought and wonder and remain in your head long after you put the book down.This collection includes these tales: Desert Moon A solo backpacker gets his final lesson in ecologyMarama A maritime mystery in the 19th century South PacificThe Bloody Pumps What is it like to be on a ship that loses its fight?Flotsam The crew of a space freighter finds a strange bit of flotsam The Viking A tall stranger comes to stay among a rural peopleThe Great Sauerkraut Escape Ever wake up and not know where you are?Heart to Heart A couple tries to work out their differencesThe Investigator An SEC investigator questions a man who knows too muchA Talk in the Dark A simple conversation between a man and his wifeThe Find An archeologist turns up evidence of the first editorLetter Found on a Park Bench What would you do if you found this curious note?Licensing Board A scientific experiment tests the bounds of ethical behaviorThe Link A parcel of "worthless" desert land is passed down through a familyTwo Men in a Tub Old friends close a circle with events in their past.
Ten short stories on very different subjects, includingE Pluribus Unum - A multi-generational starship finally approaches its destination at Tau Ceti. The people have adapted well to their shipboard environment on the long voyage - perhaps too well.The Case of the Red Herring - The Sherlock Holmes case Conan Doyle forgot to write - the mysterious case of the politician, the lighthouse, and the trained cormorant.The House - A man brings his family back to see the house he grew up in, and finds much changed - but not all.The Luck of the Irish - Three Irishmen, escaped convicts from Port Jackson, capture a schooner and try to slip past a Royal Navy frigate.The Classic - a young actress of the verge of stardom meets a man who seems to know too much about her future career.The Old One - the last mammoth fins release from loneliness.The Dreamer - a man wanders through a strange and beautiful dream, but awakening brings an unexpected surprise.Eternal Flame - a middle-aged man attends a college choral concert and discovers one of the singers is the perfect image of his lost love, still eighteen years old.Coyote - A Navajo medicine man confronts his apprentice who was strayed.Eight East - A young hippie, busted for drugs, spends a week in a mental ward and finds himself both teacher and student.
Brian Crawford was a twenty-year-old hippie, hitch-hiking around the country from the East Village to Haight-Ashbury and various hippie communes and centers in between, sampling every psychedelic experience he could 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.Busted by Immigration, he and Mike spent a week in a small town jail and met and educated some of the local kids who had only read about the hippie phenomenon. After his release, he joined a hippie commune in Fort Worth. In the process, he learned as much about himself as the strange world of the psychedelic cactus.
Nine very diverse, tightly-constructed short stories to stimulate and intrigue the intelligent reader, includingThe Swing - A girl, a swing, and a lot of time provide an overview of a lifeColby - An explorer pushes the limits of what can be learned of life and death - and the space betweenThe Visitor - A look at travel in the coming age of energy shortagesA Connecticut Yankee in King Neptune's Court - How did a Union dog tag come to be found in a Confederate submarine?Sibyl - What of us will survive after we are gone? Only our houses - and their thoughts?The McKinley Cut - What might have happened when President McKinley came to Marin County to ride the Crookedest Railroad in the World.An Occurrence in the Indian Ocean - Some old seamen never die - but they should have.Tango Uniform - Life and death in a WWII destroyerThe Siren of the South - The little-known story of the female Confederate blockade runner
The Wreck of the Steamship Pacific
Brian K Crawford
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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On the evening of Thursday, November 4, 1875, the steamship Pacific collided with the clipper ship Orpheus off Cape Flattery in Washington. The Orpheus resumed her journey but the Pacific - old, unsafe, and dangerously overcrowded - broke up in minutes and went down, scattering hundreds of men, women, and children into the sea. Exactly how many died will never be known, but the names we know are enough to make this still the worst maritime disaster in the history of the West Coast. Only two men survived, and their first-hand accounts are here. The passengers included many wealthy and famous people, along with gold miners, singers, actors, and an equestrian troupe. One passenger had already survived three other shipwrecks on the same passage. Several were carrying large amounts of gold. The stories of how they came to be aboard that night are as interesting as the disaster itself. In period newspaper articles, letters, diaries, and mysterious notes in bottles, the tales are told.The Captains - Jefferson Davis Howell (brother-in-law of President Jefferson Davis) of the Pacific, and Charles Sawyer of the Orpheus - were both young but very experienced. Who was at fault? Were they drunk? Could the collision have been averted, or more lives saved? Were the ships safe? Were the officers and crews and owners competent? Was there an official cover-up? Was the "last will in a bottle" genuine? We will examine the evidence.Illustrated with photographs and drawings of the ships and participants, this volume examines all aspects of a singular disaster. The poignancy of the deaths, and the devastation felt by so many left behind, made a mark on a generation that they remembered the rest of their lives. In the impact it had on people's lives and imaginations, the sinking of the Pacific was the Titanic of its era.
The Bolinas-Fairfax Road is unquestionably one of the most scenic roads anywhere. Its hundreds of serpentine turns wind from Fairfax in Marin County, just north of San Francisco, through redwood forests and grassy meadows along sparkling Alpine Lake, climbing a steep mountain ridge to sweeping views of the ocean, before plunging down to Bolinas on the Pacific coast. Beloved by photographers and those who make car commercials, it has been a popular drive for stagecoaches, cars, motorcycles, and bicycles for almost 140 years. It also provides access to scores of popular hiking trails and the heights of Mount Tamalpais.While the road is well known to locals, few know its history - when and why it was built, and by whom. They do not know that it did not originally go to Fairfax at all, but to San Rafael. Built in 1878 by Chinese laborers, it was the subject of anti-Asian vigilante threats. It had extensions to San Rafael and the summit of Mount Tamalpais. A whole series of stagecoach lines, driven by skilled and remarkable characters, provided a crucial transportation link across the county. Intimately tied to the history of Marin County and its water wars, the road was rerouted many times as dams and reservoirs were built. It was also the scene of runaway coaches, landslides, bridge collapses, forest fires, earthquakes, overturns, holdups, and encounters with bears and enraged stags.Compiled and meticulously researched by local historian Brian K. Crawford, with ample assistance by many librarians and historians, this book tells the remarkable story of this spectacular road. Illustrated with many maps and historical photographs, and directions on visiting the historic sites along the road.
Marin County, just north of San Francisco, is a graveyard of ships. Its steep rock-bound shores, treacherous currents and frequent fogs have been the doom of hundreds of ships for over four hundred years. Local historian Brian K. Crawford has done extensive research fleshing out the details of famous wrecks from contemporary accounts, and identifying more than a hundred wrecks not documented elsewhere. Many of these are disasters within San Francisco Bay.Many of these tales are full of danger and heroism, of pathos and high adventure. Terrified passengers cling to overturned steamers or clutch at rocks in the pounding seas. Seamen clamber up cliffs to escape certain destruction. One captain runs two ferries aground and sinks a yacht all in one day. The vessels range from Spanish treasure galleons to garbage scows, clipper ships to floating dry docks.If you love ships and the sea or tales of danger and adventure, or if you just want to know more about the many wrecks that dot our coasts, you will find this book endlessly entertaining.
The Short-Meriner Family
Judy Coy; Brian K Crawford
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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Come cook with Author-Chef (not Iron-Chef) Brian K. Larson. Yes, that's right, I'm not an Iron Chef, just an ordinary author that cooks for their family. You'll find easy to make, kid friendly, healthy recipes that your entire family will enjoy. This cookbook comes complete with instructions and photos from prep to rest. It's about my cooking journey and my unique challenges. From great successes to major failures, warts n'all, I'll lay it all out on the line with a bit of levity added to liven it up. These are so easy and economic, even your kiddos will enjoy helping and cooking with you. Try it out today and grab yours, now.
Bones and Cartilage provides the most in-depth review and synthesis assembled on the topic, across all vertebrates. It examines the function, development and evolution of bone and cartilage as tissues, organs and skeletal systems. It describes how bone and cartilage develop in embryos and are maintained in adults, how bone is repaired when we break a leg, or regenerates when a newt grows a new limb, or a lizard a new tail. The second edition of Bones and Cartilage includes the most recent knowledge of molecular, cellular, developmental and evolutionary processes, which are integrated to outline a unified discipline of developmental and evolutionary skeletal biology. Additionally, coverage includes how the molecular and cellular aspects of bones and cartilage differ in different skeletal systems and across species, along with the latest studies and hypotheses of relationships between skeletal cells and the most recent information on coupling between osteocytes and osteoclasts All chapters have been revised and updated to include the latest research.
This is a comprehensive examination of the `varna' system - a classificatory scheme laid out in the classical Hindu Vedic literature and thought to underlie the concept of caste, which continues to exert a powerful and pervasive influence over Indian life.