The latest installment of this rousing naval adventure series set during the Napoleonic wars finds stalwart British seaman Thomas Kydd & his comrade, slumming aristocrat-philosophe Nicholas Renzi.The manic plot encompasses four battles, three courts of naval inquiry, two hurricanes, two shark attacks, a shipwreck, yellow fever, the rescue of French Royalists & a few floggings & dinner parties. As Kydd surmounts all leadership challenges, his courage & resourcefulness are praised by a series of ever more august naval father figures, & he experiences a dizzying social ascent from ordinary sailor to master's mate, picking up along the way the navigational skills & drawing-room manners of an officer & a gentleman.
Author: Stockwin, Julian
Pages: 345
Product code: 60.60.640
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