RESOURCES
The Code Black and Blackwell’s Adventures books are works of fiction. All the characters, organizations, and events portrayed are either products of my imagination or are used fictitiously. Any errors, omissions, etc., are naturally my own. – V.E. Ulett
Below is a list of resources for actual historical and cultural detail.
Of God, and World Religions
The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman’s Journey to Love and Islam, by G. Willow Wilson
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, by Reza Aslan
When God Was A Woman, by Merlin Stone
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, by Geraldine Brooks
Eighteenth – Nineteenth Century Women, Women at Sea
The Education of Women and the Vices of Men, Two Qajar Tracts, translated from the Persian and with an introduction by Hasan Javadi and Willem Floor
Customs and Manners of the Women of Persia and Their Domestic Superstitions, translated from the Original Persian Manuscript by James Atkinson
Eleanor’s Odyssey, by Joan Druett
Hen Frigates: Passion and Peril, Nineteenth-Century Women at Sea, by Joan Druett
Female Tars: women aboard ship in the age of sail, by Suzanne J. Stark
Jane Austin: Her Life, by Park Honan
Pauline Bonaparte, by Flora Fraser
Emma Hamilton, by Norah Lofts
Mistress of the Elgin Marbles, a Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin, by Susan Nagel
Jane Austen and the Navy, by Brian Southam
Naval Wives and Mistresses, by Margarette Lincoln
Pacific Island and Indigenous Cultures
Tupaia, by Joan Druett
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond
Anahulu, Volume One, The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii, by Patrick V. Kirch and Marshall Sahlins
International Rivalry in the Pacific 1800 – 1875, by Jean Ingram Brookes
The Sex Lives of Cannibals, by J. Maarten Troost
Island, How Islands Transform the World, by J. Edward Chamberlin
The Book of Voyages, ed. Patrick O’Brian
Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, in the Years 1824-1825, by Lady Maria Callcott and Baron George Anson Byron Byron and Richard Rowland Bloxam
Shipwreck and survival stories
Lady Castaways, by Joan Druett
An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean, by William Mariner
Skeletons of the Zahara, by Dean King
The White Headhunter: The Story of a 19th-Century Sailor Who Survived a South Seas Heart of Darkness, by Nigel Randell
The Elephant Voyage, by Joan Druett
Crusoe, Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox, and the Creation of a Myth, by Katherine Frank
Primary source material
A Lady’s Captivity Among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas, translated from the French of Mademoiselle Fanny Loviot by Amelia B. Edwards
A Voyage to the South Atlantic and Round Cape Horn to the Pacific Ocean, by James Colnett
Journal of a Residence in Chile During the Year 1822, and a Voyage from Chile to Brazil in 1823, by Maria Graham, ed. Jennifer Hayward
Diary and Letters of Madame D’Arblay, by Frances Burney
Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier, by Jakob Walter, ed. Marc Raeff
The Wynne Diaries 1789 – 1820, by Elizabeth Wynne, ed. Anne Fremantle
Augustus Hervey’s Journal, by Augustus Hervey, ed. David Erskine
Five Naval Journals 1789 – 1817, ed. Rear-Admiral H.G. Thursfield, F.S.A.
The Dispatches & Letters of Lord Nelson, Volume V, January 1802 – April 1804, ed. Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, G.C.M.G.
Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex, by Owen Chase
Naval and Military
Men-of-War: Life in Nelson’s Navy, by Patrick O’Brian
The Eyes of the Fleet, A Popular History of Frigates and Frigate Captains, 1793 – 1815, by Anthony Price
Every Man will do his duty: an anthology of first-hand accounts from the age of Nelson, 1793 – 1815, by Dean King
Six Frigates, by Ian W. Toll
The Mammoth Book of Life Before the Mast, ed. Jon E. Lewis
Nelson’s Navy: the ships, men, and organization, 1793 – 1815, by Brian Lavery
Sea Battles in Close-Up: The Age of Nelson, by David Lyon
Cochrane, the Real Master and Commander, by David Cordingly
Lord Cochrane, by Christopher Lloyd
Regency England
The Regency Companion, by Sharon H. Laudermilk, Teresa L. Hamlin
Passion and Principle, the Loves and Lives of Regency Women, by Jane Aiken Hodge
The Prince of Pleasure and His Regency, by J.B. Priestley
Regency London, by Stella Margetson
Our Tempestuous Day, by Carolly Erickson
An Elegant Madness, by Venetia Murray
Mrs Hurst Dancing & other scenes from Regency Life 1812 – 1823, Watercolours by Diana Sperling, text by Gordon Mingay
Eighteenth – Nineteenth Century Life
The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science, by Richard Holmes
Life in the English Country House, by Mark Girouard
Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
Byron, by Elizabeth Longford
The Duel: A History of Duelling, by Robert Baldrick
The Immortal Dinner: a famous evening of genius & laughter in literary London, 1817, by Penelope Hughes-Hallett
European Thought and Culture in the 19th Century, by Lloyd Kramer
The Book of Abigail and John: selected letters of the Adams family, 1765 – 1784, by Abigail Adams, John Adams, Lyman Henry Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline
This Republic of Suffering, by Drew Gilpin Faust
Joseph Banks: A Life, by Patrick O’Brian
John Adams, by David G. McCullough
General Seafaring
Under the Black Flag, by David Cordingly
Jack Aubrey Commands: an historical companion to the naval world of Patrick O’Brian, by Brian Lavery
Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum
A Sea of Words , by Dean King, with John B. Hattendorf and J. Worth Estes
Harbors and High Seas, by Dean King, with John B. Hattendorf
The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger