Randall Peffer

Randall Peffer holds a 100-ton masters licence and has well over 100,000 miles at sea, mostly in traditional working vessels. He has been the captain of the 55' wooden research schooner Sarah Abbot for twenty-seven years.

He is the author of some crime/romantic suspense novels, non-fiction books as well as over 300 travel-lifestyle features for magazines like National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian, Reader's Digest, Travel Holiday, Islands, Sail and Wooden Boat. His travel features appear in most of the US major metro dailies.

Randall Peffer teaches writing and literature at Phillips Academy, Andover and sails out of his homeports of Marion, Massachusetts and Great Guana Cay, Abaco. He is the author of a HNF series set during the American Civil War.

Age of Sail: Fiction

AOS Naval Fiction

Series: The Seahawk Trilogy
Southern Seahawk: A Novel of the Civil War at Sea : 1861: The true story of Commander Raphael Semmes' rise to infamy
Seahawk Hunting: A Novel of the Civil War at Sea : Semmes has the Brits build him a new ship in Liverpool
Seahawk Burning: A Novel of the Civil War at Sea : Semmes and C.S.S. Alabama on the final legs of their reign of terror on the high seas
 
Series: n/a

The author’s official web site is randallpeffer.com

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