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2011 appearance schedule

2/1/2011

June 15: Olympia Chapter, Military Officers Assoc. of America, “The Last Battle Fleets, the Battle of Leyte Gulf.”

June 25: Seattle Pioneer Association, “Confederates on the Northwest Coast.”

July 21: Secretary of State’s History Lunch, State Capitol, “Confederates on the Northwest Coast.”

Oct 2: South Sound Estuary Association Center cruise, 1-4 pm, narration on area explorations, including Wilkes, Vancouver, Puget, McMillan, and Bodega y Quadra.

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Civil War Series Makes The Olympian Best Seller List

12/1/2010

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Fireside Bookstore listed all four novels of the American Civil War at sea by Les Eldridge on their list of best sellers for the week of October 31st after a well-attended author event at their store on Legion Way in Olympia. The series is in stock there as well as at several other independent bookstores in the Northwest and Hawaii and continues to be offered in perfect paper back as well as e-book through Amazon, Kindle and Nook. This is a first for these four novels to appear simultaneously on a bookseller's best seller list.

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Appearances, 2007 - 2010

10/1/2010

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South Sound Sailing Society, Topic: Wilkes, Oct 12, 2010

Don & Carol Law’s Home, Author Appearance and Booksigning, Oct 19

Navy Undersea Museum, Topic: Japanese Subs, Oct 23, 2010

Fireside Bookstore, Book Signing, Oct 30, 2010

USS Arizona Memorial: “From the Great White Fleet to Battleship Row, Battleships under Two Roosevelts,” April 2010. (Picture)

USS Bowfin Museum for the Hawaii Civil War Roundtable: “The CSS Shenandoah,” April 2010., Sixty-fifth Commissioning Anniversary, USS Bowfin, “The First Submarine Service and the Defense of Charleston,” 2008.

Wai’anae Branch, Hawaii State Library, “Hawaiian Naval Encounters of the Kamehameha Dynasty,” May 2010.

Main Branch, Hawaii State Library, “The Battle of Leyte Gulf,” for Memorial Day 2010, “Black Jacks, African-American Sailors in Mr. Lincoln’s Navy,” March 29, 2009, as part of the Abraham Lincoln Exhibition, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Other notable appearances:

African-American Civil War Museum, Washington, D.C., 2007

Mariner’s Museum, Newport News, VA, 2007

Navy Undersea Museum, Keyport, WA, 2008

Bicentennial of the US Coast Survey, 2007, Washington State Capital Museum and the Timberland Library and Sequim, WA Museum.

Recent Cruise Lectures:

Dawn Princess, 2009, Sydney to Hawaii (picture – Les as cruise lecturer). Topics: “Australia’s Magnificent Voyagers,” “Faster then a Frigate! Polynesian and Micronesian voyaging canoes,” “The Gentleman German Raiders of WW I,” “The Maori Wars, “The Royal Australian Navy,” “Japan’s Reluctant Admirals, “Drake and the Galleons of Spain.”

Splendour of the Seas, 2009, Eastern Mediterranean. Topics: “Venice’s Marriage to the Adriatic,” “Navarino and the Celebrities’ Revolution for Greek Independence,” “The Great White Fleet.”

Grand Princess, 2009, Eastern Mediterranean. Topics: “Nelson’s Italian Mistresses,” How Napoleon Sank at the Nile,” “Ironclads and Dreadnoughts in Turkish Waters.”

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les as cruise lecturer

6/21/2010

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Les at the Arizona Memorial

6/20/2010

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Newspapers in photo show the headlines on the day after the Pearl Harbor attacks and the end of World War II. The topic of the talk at the Arizona was: From the Great White Fleet to Battleship Row, Battleships Under Two Roosevelts.

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2011 appearance schedule

Civil War Series Makes The Olympian Best Seller List

Appearances, 2007 - 2010

les as cruise lecturer

Les at the Arizona Memorial

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