This trip has been postponed.

December 20-28, 2008 with historian Jane Murphy *06. Cast away with a merry band of Princeton Pirates over the holidays on our very own square-rigged clipper ship.

Heroic or villainous, pirates have long captured the popular imagination in text, song, and film. But fictional pirates also have real-life counterparts who played key roles in shaping the modern period. The golden age of pirates—the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries—was also the age of the slave trade, exploration, conquest, and imperialism. Consider the role pirates, both fictional and historical, play in cross-cultural encounters among nations, leaders, and renegades when you join other Princeton families, December 20-28, 2008, on this Caribbean adventure.

Meet your fellow pirates in St. Maarten and get your sailing instructions at a welcome reception and dinner. Then, the next morning, board the Stad Amsterdam. With just 14 cabins, this Clipper ship is intimate in feel yet massive enough to chart a strong course across the Leeward Islands.

Begin with a full day of sailing to get your sea legs and learn about the routes traveled by and the motivations of pirates throughout time. On the island of Nevis, walk through the well-preserved 18th-century settlement at Charlestown, home to the only court in the West Indies to hang pirates. Also visit a fort in St. Kitts, a wildlife sanctuary in Barbuda, and Nelson's Dockyard in Antigua. Along the way of our seven-night sail, there will also be ample time to swim, snorkel, and take in the warm Caribbean sun.

The Princeton Journeys team recommends this journey for travelers age seven and older.

About the Study Leader
Jane Murphy *06 will serve as study leader for this program.

A graduate of the Program in the History of Science, Department of History at Princeton University (PhD 2006; BA, Yale University 1995), Professor Murphy's research focuses on European and Islamic scientific activities in the sixteenth – nineteenth centuries, with particular interest in the intersection of scientific practices and ideologies in imperial expansion. An interest in figures on the margins of empires led to her designing a Princeton Freshman Writing Seminar on the topic of Pirates. She joined the history faculty at Colorado College in the 2007-08 academic year.

To make reservations, fill out the form in the brochure or contact Princeton Journeys at (609) 258-8686 or journeys@princeton.edu.