Peter Nichols, Author Putnam Adult $26.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-399-15602-1
Chronicling the downfall of the vast whaling industry developed in New England over the 18th and 19th centuries, author Nichols (A Voyage for Madmen) presents both an illuminating portrait of Quaker life and industry, and a heart-pounding tale of...
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Peter Nichols, Author . HarperCollins $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-019764-3
In the psychedelic summer of 1968, as Apollo 8 soared toward the moon and the Democratic Convention crashed in Chicago, nine men tried finally to accomplish the sailor's age-old ultimate goal: a solo, nonstop circumnavigation of the world....
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Peter Nichols, Author Viking Books $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-87179-7
""The leak and I are in a race to dry land,"" Nichols writes one month into his single-handed voyage from England to Maine in a 27-foot, wooden sailboat. Lovingly restored over five years with his wife, J., Toad represents to him both a home created
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Peter Nichols, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0664-8
This is a first novel by the author of Sea Change, an account of his solo voyage across the Atlantic, and here, too, Nichols writes of the sea and ships with great feeling and accuracy. With his lean but telling style, he is as convincing on...
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Peter Nichols, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-008877-4
Readers familiar with how Darwin developed his theory of evolution will recognize the HMS Beagle as the ship that took him on his research expedition, but that's probably the extent of their knowledge of the vessel. Nichols (A Voyage for Madmen,
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Peter Nichols. Riverhead, $27.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-59463-331-7
Nichols (Voyage to the North Star) has conjured the perfect beach read: a romantic story set in a rich beach town on Mallorca called Cala Marsopa. Though you may not get sand between its easy-to-turn pages, you’ll feel as though you have. Lulu...
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Peter Nichols. Celadon, $29 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250894-81-6
A spate of gruesome killings rocks a coastal Maine town in Nichols’s disquieting latest (after The Rocks). When teenager Shane Carter is found mutilated and hanging from a crossbeam in sleepy Granite Harbor’s only museum, shock reverberates through...
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