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Bibliography, Howard Pease

Howard Pease (1894 - 1974) wrote from personal experience reflected in how Tod Moran (about 15 of his works were based upon the character William Todhunter Moran) first started to sea, as a summer job while he was attending Stanford University in Palo Alto CA.

Even as a small boy the sea always attracted Howard Pease. Maybe because he lived on inland soil, out of sight of the fogs of the coast, yet on a river that flowed into San Francisco Bay. Born in Stockton, California, he finished high school there and then entered Stanford University.

At the end of his freshman year he found himself enlisted in a university unit which was sent early to France. Two years later he returned to Stanford where he remained off and on until graduation.

Writing had been Mr. Pease's main object and interest ever since the sixth grade and because he had no wish to write and starve in a garret, he now chose teaching as a profession, since it gave him long vacations in which to work at his typewriter.

The sea, too, still attracted him. One summer he shipped out as a wiper in the engine room of a freighter-one of the few ship jobs an inexperienced youth can get.

During Mr. Pease's first year of teaching school he started The Tattooed Man. It was the result of two voyages, together with a walking trip from Marseilles along the coast to Italy. The Jinx Ship was the result of another voyage. His book, The Ship Without a Crew, was written after a tropical winter in Tahiti and Highroad to Adventure after an automobile trip along the Pan-American Highway to Mexico.

With his wife and son, Mr. Pease lived in San Francisco on a hill near the Golden Gate, where he devoted all his working hours to writing.

Bibliography:

Title	Description	Year	Publisher
The Tattooed Man	a tale of strange adventures, befalling Tod Moran, mess boy of the tramp steamer "Araby," upon his first voyage from San Francisco to Genoa, via the Panama canal, a teenage boy goes in search of his missing shipping company older brother. The hero takes a job as a mess boy, and later stoker on a freighter out of San Francisco bound for Marseilles. It is a vividly realistic portrayal of life aboard tramp freighters in the inter-war years. Also interesting is the treatment of drug addiction in the days when it wasn't so painfully common	1926	New York Doubleday, Doran & Co Inc
The Jinx Ship	the dark adventure that befell Tod Moran when he shipped as fireman aboard the tramp steamer "Congo", bound out of New York for Caribbean ports	1927	Doubleday & Co. Garden City, NY
Shanghai Passage	being a tale of mystery and adventure on the high seas in which Stuart Ormsby is shanghaied aboard the tramp steamer "Nanking" bound for ports on the China coast	1929	Doubleday & Co. Garden City, NY
The Gypsy Caravan	Betty and Joe travel with the gypsies and meet Robin Hood, Richard the Lionhearted, Roland and others.	1930	Garden City/NY: Doubleday
Secret Cargo	the story of Larry Matthews and his dog Sambo, forecastle mates on the tramp steamer "Creole Trader", New Orleans to the South Seas	1931	Garden City Doubleday & Company
The Ship Without a Crew	the strange adventures of Tod Moran, third mate of the tramp steamer "Araby"	1934	Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, Doran & Company
Wind in the Rigging	an adventurous voyage of Tod Moran on the tramp steamer "Sumatra," New York to North Africa	1935	NY Doubleday, Doran & Co
Hurricane Weather	yachting in the South Seas	1936	Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc
Foghorns	a story of labour troubles on the San Francisco water front	1937	New York Doubleday Doran
Captain Binnacle		1938	Dodd, Mead & Company, New York
Jungle River	American boy searching for his lost father in the New Guinea jungle	1938	New York Doubleday, Doran & Co Inc
Highroad to adventure	Tod Moran, trip to Mexico and a silver mine mystery	1939	New York Doubleday, Doran & Co Inc
The Black Tanker	A Stanford student gets word that his father, a doctor working in China, has been seriously injured in a Japanese bombing raid. The only way he can get to China is to sign on as an engine wiper on the tanker ZAMBORA, with Captain Jarvis and mate Tod Moran, carrying oil to the Japanese bases in China. There is a murder on board, a storm at sea, and some adventures with the Japanese and Chinese after they arrive. Seen through American political neutrality with a strong distaste for Japanese Imperialism	1941	New York Doubleday, Doran & Co Inc
Night Boat	and other Tod Moran mysteries	1942	Doubleday, Doran and Co. Garden City,
Thunderbolt House	Set in Stockton, the San Francisco earthquake	1944	Doubleday & Company NY
Heart of Danger	a tale of adventure on land and sea with Tod Moran, third mate of the tramp steamer "Araby"	1946	Doubleday, Doran and Co. NY
Bound for Singapore	Being a True and Faithful Account of the Making of an Adventurer	1948	New York Doubleday, Doran & Co Inc
Captain of the Araby	the story of a voyage, a Tod Moran book, and the Capt. of the title is a man he sails with in most of the books	1953	NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc
Shipwreck	the strange adventures of Renny Mitchum, mess boy of the trading schooner "Samarang"	1957	NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc
Dark Adventure		1950	Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday
Long wharf	story of young San Francisco	1939	ew York, Dodd, Mead & company
Mystery on Telegraph Hill	Tod Moran	1961	NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc

Other "Pease" mentions:

Several of the Society's early Volumes of the Journal of the [Royal] Cruising Club belonged to and are signed by a J.G. Pease. Relationship, if any, unknown.

Captain "Bully" Hayes, A South Sea pirate. In 1870 was arrested by the English Consul at Samoa for piracy. There being no prison in this delightful island, the Consul ran Hayes's ship on shore, and waited for a Navy ship to call and take his prisoner away. Hayes spent his time, while under open arrest, he was the life and soul of native picnic parties. When off duty he was a man of great charm of manner and a favourite with the ladies. Presently Captain Pease, another pirate, arrived in an armed ship with a Malay crew. Hayes and Pease quarrelled violently, and the Consul had great trouble to keep the two pirates from coming to blows. This animosity was all a sham to throw dust in the Consul's eyes, for one night Hayes smuggled Pease on board his ship andsailed away. Relationship, if any, unknown.

There was a Captain William Cooke Pease from Martha's Vineyard - see: Florence Kern, Captain Pease U. S. Coast Guard Pioneer, Alised Enterprises, Bethesda, Maryland, 1982. Relationship, if any, unknown

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