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Company Overview

Island Books of Boston was founded by a lifelong writer in 2009. Initially the purpose
was for the small company to serve as the in-house publishing arm for the founder’s 50 or
so books. As demand by other solo authors without agents or publishers to be distributed
globally at low cost crew, the client base expanded. Leveraging economies of scale and
nearly two decades of experience, the company has hired editors, layout teams, illustrators
and distributors in the US, UK, Canada, Bahamas, Ghana, China, India, Pakistan and beyond.

The founder, Eric Wiberg, has worked in bookstores and book dealers, had been
represented by an agent and published through several publishers. As a licensed attorney
(federal and state), patent holder and notary, he assures that the tax and company
registration are up to date. Island Books leverages economies of scale to buy ISBNs in bulk,
and is a recognized entity in the Library of Congress. By pre-applying for a Library of
Congress control number, then submitting the hard-copy to them, Island Books offers a
value-added option which few other publishers bother to; with a dozen satisfied customers.

Eric has been been teaching international students for years and his background and
education is global; two passports, five universities, the Caribbean, USA, UK, Sweden,
Singapore, and beyond to 85 countries travelled to. All genres and art forms are welcome,
with Island Books publishing 1,000-page data-driven books to medical treatises, creative
writing, children’s books, coloring books, art-themed, memoir, and history. In recent years
clients are offered ghost-writing options, student work, joint-ventures between student
illustrators and writers and more.

When you choose to publish through Island Books, you receive print and ship options
globally, an economical cost-plus-basis pricing, deeply experienced team, and a simple,
often fast turnaround time. Most of all, unlike big firms, your responses are immediate –
emails will replied to almost instantly – and the customer experience is transparent.
References are readily available. Our design, editing, layout and consultation team are
standing by to bring your book to the audience of your choice; in print and e-book form
through all major global retailers globally, starting with Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

There is a reason that Island Books’ client base has steadily expanded from the Bahamas
to the US, Canada, Europe and Asia. We personally ensure your book and artwork reaches a
global audience reliably, cost-effectively, and quickly.

Yours faithfully,

Publication List, 1980-2025

by Eric Wiberg

  1.       1980; Turtle Report (w/ John Wiberg)
  2.       1988; Umbrae Papilionis
  3.       1989; Z. (for Zarathustra)
  4.       1990; Shorts
  5.       1991; Published Writing Vol. I II (1st edition)
  6.       2003; Published Writing Vol. II (2nd edition)
  7.       2003; Travel Writing
  8.       2009; Published Writing (2nd edition)
  9.       2009; Juvenilia: Teen Books & Travel Writing
  10.       2009; Tanker Disasters
  11.       2010; Round the World in the Wrong Season
  12.       2016; U-Boats in the Bahamas (BrickTower Press, NYC)
  13.       2017; U-Boats off Bermuda (Fonthill Media, UK)
  14.       2017; Swan Sinks
  15.       2017; Published Writing, 1976-2017 (3rd edition)
  16.       2018; Album Vol. 1 (w/A. R. Qureshi, unpublished)
  17.       2018; Album Vol. 2 (w/A. R. Qureshi, unpublished)
  18.       2018; Album Vol. 3 (w/A. R. Qureshi, unpublished)
  19.       2018; Album Vol. 4 (w/A. R. Qureshi, unpublished)
  20.       2018; Album Vol. 5 (w/A. R. Qureshi, unpublished)
  21.       2018; Album Vol. 6 (w/A. R. Qureshi, unpublished)
  22.       2018; Album Vol. 7 (w/A. R. Qureshi, unpublished)
  23.       2018; Åke Wiberg, Bahamas Wibergs (with Mats Larsson)
  24.       2018; Napoleon’s Battles (w/ Felix Wiberg)
  25.       2019; Drift (script, w/ Paolo Pilladi, unpublished)
  26.       2019; U-Boats in New England (Fonthill Media, UK)
  27.       2019; Diaries 1984–2019 (unpublished)
  28.       2020; Boston Harbor
  29.       2020; Bahamas in World War II
  30.       2020; Travel Diaries
  31.       2020; Scars
  32.       2020; Sea Stories
  33.       2021; Yacht Voyages
  34.       2021; Mailboats of the Bahamas
  35.       2021; History of Lyford Cay International School (unpublished)
  36.       2021; Drifting to the Duchess (unpublished)
  37.       2021; Tankers East of Suez (unpublished)
  38.       2021; First Fifty in Fifty
  39.       2021; Published Writing, 1976-2020 (4th edition)
  40.       2022; Surviving St. George’s (unpublished)
  41.       2021; History of Lyford Cay Foundation (unpublished/cancelled)
  42.       2024; Warplanes Lost &  Found in the Bahamas
  43.       2024; The Island (illustrated by Yiwen Yan)
  44.       2026; Naval Air Station Quonset WWII Accidents (w/ Douglas Campbell, PhD.)
  45.       2026; The Mitre Hotel
  46.       2026; History of H. G.  Christie Realty (w/ Paola Christie)

by – or for – clients:

  1. 2021; History, Turks & Caicos in Postcards, Jeffrey Dodge, TCI Museum
  2.     2022; Ghost-Written Memoir, Asia (confidential)
  3.     2023; Parks Families of Eleuthera, Stephen Smollett
  4. 2024; Harbour Island Marriages, Stephen Smollett
  5. 2024; Goombay Kids coloring book, Stephanie Nihon
  6. 2024; A Hard Lesson Wasted, Dr. Harold Munnings
  7.         2025; Set in the Deep Blue Sea, Sir Geoffrey Johnstone
  8.         2025; A Collection of History Blogs, Daniel Liang
  9.         2025; Silhouette, Enze Zhang (illustrated by Yifan Chen)
  10.         2025; Mikey and the Big Regatta, Michael Pateman, Acheampong Samuel

Summary: 53 by Island Books (2 by Fonthill Media, 1 Brick Tower), 27 live, 6 by clients.

Tagline Summaries of 20 Published Books

  1. The Island, a Novella, young adults, coming of age, processing life experience, adventure
  2. Warplanes Lost & Found in The Bahamas; unlikely volunteers, 10 boats, 10 WWII planes
  3. Yacht Voyages: 125+ boats on several oceans in 70+ country and islands (2021)
  4. First Fifty in Fifty: Memoir to age 50, based on 1,000p collection of diaries, 9,000 photos
  5. Published Writing, 1976-2021: 100+ articles, prose, poems, journalism, travel, history
  6. Sea Stories: Best of the lot, from author’s experience and research, global mishaps, yarns
  7. Travel Diaries: 4 round-world travels, 70+ countries, islands, and 6 continents (2020)
  8. Scars: Brief study, explanation of wounds accrued, 18 specific episodes (2020)
  9. Boston Harbor: Images of Boston’s workaday waterways, taken from sea level. (2020)
  10. Bahamas in WWII: A Military Chronology: Every day, plane, convoy, escort, U-Boat attack
  11. Mailboats of the Bahamas; 200 Vessels in 200 Years: First full coverage of polyglot fleet
  12. U-Boats in New England: 94 submarines attacking New England in WWII, 3 spies (2019)
  13. U-Boats off Bermuda: 142 German subs sank 80 Allied ships 1,224 landed (2017)
  14. U-Boats in Bahamas: 112 German/Italian subs, WWII, 130 Allied ships, 300 Allies saved
  15. Napoleon’s Battles: A Six-Year-Old’s Perspectives: Children’s book dictated by son; offline
  16. Swan Sinks: Greek ship Cygnet was torpedoed off San Salvador by Italian sub, WWII
  17. Åke Wiberg: Bahamas Wibergs: Oral history, genealogy, stories, 3 generations Bahamas
  18. Round the World in the Wrong Season: Memoir of travel, sailing, heartbreak, adventure
  19. Juvenilia: Teen Books & Travel Writing: Four collections written boarding school, college
  20. Tanker Disasters: Master’s degree paper, places of refuge legislation for tankers, spills

Book Synopses

The Island; a Novella: (June, 2024). “There was a little boy who grew into a young man, then chose to live on a little island and go back to being a little boy. Even though his fingers sometimes hurt from touching things he discovered, he still yearned to touch more, to learn more.  He could not leave his little island, but the world came to him in the form of hundreds of myriad objects. Though his physical needs were met, these things fed the hungriest of his organs: his mind, which required the greatest variety of stimulation….” US, Island Books, 9781735632483,

Warplanes Lost and Found in the Bahamas (May, 2023). How finding a World War II bomber off the beach of his family business pivoted the life of a middle-age divorcee, enabling him to convince eight friends to loan their boats and expertise, culminating in a month-long voyage through Bahamas in 2023 in which six aircraft (total of ten) were found in just three weeks. ISBNs: Island Books, US, 978735632414, paperback, e-book.

Mailboats of the Bahamas: 350 Vessels in 200 Years (Apr. 2021): Comprehensive coverage of a polyglot fleet extends to the early 1800s. The author abandoned the usual “boat” research in favor of philately; the study of “mail.” This produced some 350 vessels and increased net understanding of this archipelagic network by over 100 ships and over 70 years. How local entrepreneurs and cooperatives on poorer islands bonded together for centuries to make, purchase and man their own vessels. Mailboats become the tortoise to the aircraft’s hare – never able to be replaced, at time unreliable yet at others indispensable. Using doctoral thesis, military records and modern social studies, this highly illustrated book pries into the impact on mailboats empowering locals, women, and both affirming and disregarding racial strictures ashore. The story about the participants many others have overlooked: the folks who built, manned, financed, and operated mailboats so that others may safely make it to the capital: sinews, synapses of the archipelago. ISBNs: Island Books, US, 9780984399895, 201619390, 350 pages, 80,000 words, hardback, 9780998375908, e-book.

Round The World in The Wrong Season (2010/2023): A coming-of-age story, just out of college, commands a leaking 68-foot wooden yacht with five persons from Bahamas, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, and Australia to New Zealand. After 5.5 months the owner dies. Recent graduate, 23, follows college girlfriend to Thailand where she is a volunteer teacher on the Myanmar border, just in time to meet her Thai boyfriend. Institutionalized on return to Sweden. Less nice, per former girlfriend: Rich American follows loins crossing the Pacific while feeling sorry for himself. ISBNs: Island Books, 9780984399826, 2009914041, 47p., 159,356w, pb, 9780998375984, e-bk. 3rd Ed.

Bahamas in WWII: A Military Chronology, 1939-1945 (Jun. 2020): First-ever chronology of World War II in the western hemisphere; declaring the fight for Allied survival in a little known million-mile area with over two million participants. Had they failed; Britain would have run out of oil in mid-1942. Includes incredibly ambitious data delivery, all around a 350-page diary incorporating all diaries of Germans, Italians, British, US, and others. Every day, name of every dead, 5,000 trainees, 3,000 VIPs, 20,000 convoys, 4,000 ship names, 2,000 planes delivered, 150 bases, 25 units in Bahamas, the Windsors, planes, convoys, escorts, and U-Boat attack. Each entry informs the reader of all activities in the sky, on the surface, and below the sea, and how they interact. Over 50 B&W photographs, 25 original charts by a National Geographic veteran, many detailed appendices of wrecks, attacks, over 1,000 sightings of Allies by Germans and Italians so for the first times readers can very easily connect the dots and see which reporting sighting was valid and which not. ISBNs: Island Books, US, 9780998375939, 2017951460, hardback, and 9780998375946, e-book.

U-Boats in New England: Submarine Patrols, Survivors and Saboteurs 1942-45 (Nov. 2019): Why the US doesn’t want us knowing that U-boats dropped spies in three places, including New York, Maine, and Bay of Fundy, and a U-boat was grounded at Amagansett for hours but got away, and a Coast Guardsman took a bribe to let the Nazi’s pass and was given a medal, how Germans who surrendered were beaten so badly the commander killed himself on the common jail of Boston (now a hotel) and is buried where Madoff, Weiner, and the Boston Bombers stayed, at Ford Devens. Details 94 submarines attacking New England in WWII. Three groups of spies were inserted in Maine, the Hamptons, and Bay of Fundy. Thirty-Eight Allied ships attacked, throwing 2,000 men into the sea, of whom 500 died in US Navy’s greatest defeat. ISBNs: Fonthill Media, UK, 9781781557204, 416 pp.

U-Boats off Bermuda: Patrol Summaries and Merchant Ship Survivors Landed in Bermuda 1940-1944 (Aug. 2017): This led to the US Navy in Nov. 2019 reversing credit for the sinking of U-84 between Bermuda and Bahamas, correcting the Congressional Record, and having the author speak at the US Capital to see a Distinguished Flying Cross awarded. Front page, Providence Journal. History of 142 German submarines patrolling around Bermuda, sinking 80 Allied ships for the loss of two submarines. 1,224 Allied sailors, passengers landed Bermuda. Drama of rescues by planes landing on the sea, Ivy-league American Field Service volunteers teaching merchant mariners how to sail lifeboats to the mainland. ISBNs: Fonthill Media, UK, 9781781556061, 256 pgs, hard, e-book

U-Boats in the Bahamas (Jul. 2016): Essentially created a new World War II battlefield; before this book historians stuck to the safety of the coast, and since it was a defeat the US and UK were happy to keep it that way. First-telling of 112 German and Italian submarines who surrounded Bahamas in WWII, sinking 130 Allied ships. Details fates of 300+ Allied sailors, Duke & Duchess of Windsor, Red Cross, boat-racing heiress Marion Carstairs, locals who helped U-Boat victims. ISBNs: Brick Tower Press, US, 9781899694624, 380 pages, hardcover, e-book.

Swan Sinks: SS Cygnet Sunk by Italian Submarine Enrico Tazzoli (May 2020): The Greek ship Cygnet, named for the swans of Andros, Greece, was torpedoed in sight of San Salvador, Bahamas by and Italian submarine run with incredible success until the aristocratic commander rammed a victim and limped home, still popping up to spook Allied ships (he killed himself on his government’s betrayal). The family who owned the ship are discrete tycoons, the men missed sharing the boat to America with Sidney Poitier by hours, the author visited shipping offices in UK, Bahamas, Greece, and followed the stories of the merchant sailors who emigrated, from small islands in Greece which he visited. A small compelling human-interest story about Italians attacking the Americas. ISBNs Island Books, US, 9780984399888, 2017905764, 138 pages, 26,619 words, paperback, 9780999437803.

Boston Harbor, (Mar., 2020): Images of Boston’s workaday waterways, taken from sea level. A unique and new working-man’s view of how the ships, terminals, passenger boats a cargoes and tugs interplay on a daily basis to make Boston – and New England – work. On a summer day one company alone has over 500 dockings and sailings in the Boston area, which boast 3 rivers, over 30 islands, a major airport, and many neighborhoods, from the Cape and Salem, woven together by boats.  A captain with experience as a water-taxi operator (7 years), tankers (3), tugs (5, from shore), yachts (20), and a master’s in marine affairs and policy, the book is infused with surprising details; seals, dolphins, whales, birds. One ship captain lost it and went through the harbor backwards. Sub-zero, 4.30-am shifts in heavy snow. Documents the last days as Boston shut down. ISBNs: Island Books, US, 9780999437858, 2020900404, 178 pp, paper, 9780999437865, e-book.

Drifting to the Duchess: SS Potlatch, U-153, Incredible Survival, Bahamas, WWII: US merchant ship Potlatch under Jack Lapoint sets off for India spewing thick smoke. German commander, son of a rural Vicar who sank another U-boat in training and was hospitalized, sinks them. Most survive. A Dutch lifeboat finds 50 men in a 26-foot boat but sails on. A month later gangrene from a shark bite kills one man. They land. No food, they are a mile outside the arc of the nearest lighthouse. Two islands later, day 30, an old black steward dies in his arms. Then a lighthouse beam hits them.  The crew range from a lawyer and future senator to Puerto Rican mess boys. Children find them splayed on an Acklins Island beach. A leaking schooner takes them, until the fastest woman on water, veteran of WWI: Marion ‘Joe’ Carstairs in Vergemere IV rescues 48. Bahamians bury the steward. Over 15 years the author met with survivors and has over 35 witness perspectives. Story is subject of The Queen of Whale Cay, a 2023 BBC documentary and two scripts. ISBNs: Island Books, US, 978-0-9983759-1-5, 2017913246, end-2020, 225 pages, 61,898 words, Paperback, 978-0-9983759-2-2 e-book. Drifting, script, w/ Paolo Pilladi ISBN: 9780999847923, 110p

Tankers East of Suez (Dec. 2021): A memoir of three intense years’ operating old tanker ships from an office tower in Singapore where some of 21 ships in fleet would toot their horn when they passed our windows. Office team spoke over 10 languages, some wore sandals and many of us smoked, and scaffolding was still hand-made off bamboo and vines. Newcomers often stood on the toilet rim. Author voyaged on nine ships that went to North Korea, Africa, up South American rivers, and led to four deaths, from suicide, stabbing, explosion and heart attack; bodies kept in the food freezers. Mutinies and ship arrests, walruses and ice floes, bribes, kick-backs, paid honchos in Indonesia, crew fathering small villages. The best place to dump a body? Mozambique; because of civil war they are experts. Author helped save several stowaway’s lives. Their relation to each other? Same mother. Reason they left Sudan? Hope. ISBNs: 9780999437896; LOC PCN 2019908979, 978-0-9994378-8-9 250 pp., 57,401 w., pb.

Yacht Voyages (May 2021): Global adventures at sea on 125+ boats on several oceans in 70+ country and islands. Fire, sinking, abandon ship off Trinidad, leaking boat nursed from Galapagos to New Zealand, lost overboard in underwear in a snowstorm off Block Island, with captain gone no one knew how to turn on engine. Missing Bermuda, surviving 3 weeks of starvation, 2 knife attacks, water brackish, no use of head. 75,000 nautical miles is enough to go around the entire planet at the equator 3 times. The only gap in covering the globe on the surface after 4 such trips, is between Visakhapatnam, east coast India, and Mombasa – or St. Petersburg – Russia; basically, the Indian Ocean. ISBN Island Books, 0999847910, ISBN-13: ‎978-0999847916, ASIN B0944BSSJQ, 392 pp.

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