Badham, Michael ( - 2002)

Genre: General Fiction, Non-Fiction

Michael Badham was born in Australia but his family moved to England when he was three. He attended the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, served as a midshipman in the battleship Duke of York, commanded submarines and then returned to the Royal Naval College as a staff member.

He and his family crossed the Atlantic in a converted lifeboat and he chartered in the Caribbean for several years during the 1960's. He then worked as a boat builder in Ireland for a while before moving to Bath, ME where he became known as a yacht designer and writer.

Bibliography

  • My Road Leads Me Seawards (1997)
  • Sailor's Secrets: Advice from the Masters (1997)
  • The Moose Hunt Murders and Ellis in Balcutha, Two Novellas (1999)
  • A Fatal Disease: A Novel (2001)