All Hands on Deck: A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World

A maritime adventure memoir that follows a crew of misfits hired to sail an eighteenth-century warship six thousand miles to Hollywood

In the late 1990s, Patrick O'Brian's beloved, massively bestselling historical novel series was destined for film. With director Peter Weir and stars Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany signed on for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, there was only one problem: The Rose, the replica
eighteenth-century warship that filmmakers bought for the productio...