Peter Nichols (author)

In his late twenties and early thirties, Nichols lived on a small wooden sailboat in the Caribbean and Mediterranean. He became a U.S. Coast Guard licensed yacht captain and navigator, worked as a professional yacht charter and sailboat delivery captain, and has sailed across the Atlantic Ocean three times on small yachts.^[6] A solo crossing of the Atlantic is recounted in his memoir, Sea Change; Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat (1997).^[7]

In 2009, Nichols sailed across the Atlantic at the invitation of Dutch public-television channel VPRO. He accompanied the great-great-grandsons of Charles Darwin and Robert FitzRoy, the captain of HMS Beagle, on the square-rigged tall ship Stad Amsterdam to recreate the voyage of the Beagle and mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.^[8][9]

• Sea Change; Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat (1997) (ISBN 1574092928)^[10]

• A Voyage for Madmen (2001) (ISBN 073227592X)^[11]
• Evolution's Captain (2004) (ISBN 0060088788)^{[12][13][14][15]}
• Oil & Ice (2010) (ISBN 0143118366)

• Voyage to the North Star (1999) (ISBN 0786706643)^[16][17]
• The Rocks (2015) (ISBN 978-1-59463-331-7)^[18][19][20]
• Granite Harbor (2023) (ISBN 978-1-25089-481-6)^[21]