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Hilda and the Ship's Doctor

Hilda and the Ship's Doctor


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During her time in tropical Queensland, author Erica Bell frequently sailed around Moreton Bay, and it was during such a journey that she discovered the inspiration for Hilda and the Ship's Doctor. The idea came to her one day when she anchored in a coral gutter just off uninhabited Peel Island after her boat was caught in a storm. She went ashore and came across the ruins of the lazaret, which ultimately led her to unearth the historical facts cleverly infused into this, her debut novel. A story of love, adventure, and innocence lost, Hilda and the Ship's Doctor carries readers into the early twentieth century to follow seventeen-year-old Hilda Kofke on a journey through the South Seas, from Queensland to Melanesia. From Hilda's budding romance with the ship's brooding first mate to the unthinkable things she discovers about her father and the alarming unfolding of her life aboard, the tale seamlessly weaves nonfiction information into a fiction format to explore the textures, scents, and sounds of a dark tropic past riddled by physical maladies and moral disease. This riveting, rich tale is a must read for anyone interested in intricate historical fiction in the tradition of the works of acclaimed authors Charles Frazier, Hannah Kent, and Hilary Mantel.
About the Author: Erica Bell is an Australian author who was born and raised in Melanesia (in Rabaul on New Britain). She also spent a number of years on Misima Island in the Louisiade Archipelago, which later came to serve as the imaginative heart of her debut novel Hilda and the Ship's Doctor.

As an adult, Bell lived in Queensland, where she obtained her PhD in language theory. In 2002 she relocated to America where she penned Hilda and the Ship's Doctor in a tiny stone cottage in Minnesota.

Bell now lives and works as an academic in Tasmania, the birthplace of her second novel, Enzam and the Just Prince.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781495407772
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 374
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 548 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1495407772
  • Publisher Date: 18 May 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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