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March
27, 2003
MARITIME
NOVEL AUTHOR ROBERT MACOMBER LECTURE AND BOOK
SIGNING AT
MEL FISHER MARITIME MUSEUM
Nationally
recognized author and lecturer on maritime history
Robert Macomber will lecture and sign his new book, Point of Honor, at the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum on Thursday,
April 10, 2003 beginning at 7:00 p.m.
Macomber’s
latest book is the second in a series of novels he is
writing on the continuing exploits of Lt. Peter Wake,
U.S. Navy. This
historical novel takes place in 1864 in Key West and the
West Coast of Florida.
His first novel, At the Edge of Honor, has
been nominated for the national Michael Shaara Award for
Best Civil War Fiction and for the Patrick Smith Award
for Best Florida Historical Fiction.
The third book in the series, Honorable
Mention, will be released in 2004.
Robert
N. Macomber had the good fortune to grow up among the
islands of the unspoiled coasts of Florida before they
were discovered and developed.
The son of a sailor, he inherited that peculiar
urge to see clear watery horizons and learned sailing at
a very early age from his father.
By the time he was seventeen, Macomber was the
skipper of an Irwin twenty-four foot sloop, the Whistler, and racing offshore with his teenage crew.
After
earning an associate’s degree in Social Science from
Edison Community College and a bachelor’s degree in
Political Science from the University of south Florida
at Tampa, Macomber resumed his sailing adventures.
He has earned over twenty-five trophies and
awards for his offshore sailing throughout the years in
Florida, Mexico, and the Bahamas.
Not only a racer, Macomber is also well known for
his cruising knowledge of the out-of-the-way gunkholes
and their histories.
In
his sailing, Macomber has experienced ships of all kinds
around the world. He has sailed modern, gaff, and square-rigged vessels.
Macomber has been on missions aboard an Israeli
patrol boat in the Mediterranean, a Hungarian patrol
boat on the Danube, and US Coast Guard cutters on
offshore patrol in the Gulf of Mexico.
He has served on the faculty of the Royal
Navy’s Britannia Naval College and operated a Panama
Canal tugboat. He
still transits aboard freighters and has a worldwide
network of historians, and naval, merchant and private
sailors that assist him in research for his books.
Macomber
is published throughout Florida, the national Civil
War Interactive Magazine, and internationally in the
U.S. Naval Institute’s Proceedings
Magazine and in Naval
History Magazine.
Reviews
for his first two books credit him with bringing the
Civil War to life for readers.
Macomber’s talk will be from 7:00-7:45 p.m.
with questions and answers to follow.
His lecture will focus on the story of an enemy
blockade-runner that was captured and commissioned as an
U.S. officer. Macomber
will also bring original artifacts from his travels.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
The museum will be open from 6 p.m. for those
attending the lecture and signing.
The event is free and open to the public.
The
Mel Fisher Maritime Museum is a 501c(3) not for profit
organization dedicated to the research, preservation,
and education of New World history.
Founded in 1982, it is the most visited
non-profit history museum in the Southeast.
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