Midshipman Bolitho (Special Sale) - Softcover
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Richard Bolitho — Midshipman
October 1772, Portsmouth. Sixteen-year-old Richard Bolitho waits to join the Gorgon, ordered to sail to the west coast of Africa and to destroy those who challenge the King’s Navy. For Bolitho, and for many of the crew, it is a severe and testing initiation into the game of seamanship.
Midshipman Bolitho and the Avenger
December 1773, Falmouth. The young Bolitho looks forward to a family Christmas in Cornwall while the Gorgon is refitted. But Cornwall is the treacherous stomping ground of smugglers and wreckers. After the murder of a revenue officer, Bolitho is swept aboard his brother’s cutter Avenger on a dangerous mission of hide-and-seek.
Band of Brothers
1774. The new year seems to offer Richard Bolitho and his friend Martyn Dancer the culmination of a dream. Both have been recommended for promotion, although they have not yet gained the coveted lieutenant’s commission. But a routine passage from Plymouth to Guernsey in an untried schooner becomes, for Bolitho, a passage from midshipman King’s officer, tempering the promise of the future with the bitter price of maturity.
Richard Bolitho — Midshipman
October 1772, Portsmouth. Sixteen-year-old Richard Bolitho waits to join the Gorgon, ordered to sail to the west coast of Africa and to destroy those who challenge the King’s Navy. For Bolitho, and for many of the crew, it is a severe and testing initiation into the game of seamanship.
Midshipman Bolitho and the Avenger
December 1773, Falmouth. The young Bolitho looks forward to a family Christmas in Cornwall while the Gorgon is refitted. But Cornwall is the treacherous stomping ground of smugglers and wreckers. After the murder of a revenue officer, Bolitho is swept aboard his brother’s cutter Avenger on a dangerous mission of hide-and-seek.
Band of Brothers
1774. The new year seems to offer Richard Bolitho and his friend Martyn Dancer the culmination of a dream. Both have been recommended for promotion, although they have not yet gained the coveted lieutenant’s commission. But a routine passage from Plymouth to Guernsey in an untried schooner becomes, for Bolitho, a passage from midshipman King’s officer, tempering the promise of the future with the bitter price of maturity.
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Product Description:
Two novels in one volume: the first, Richard Bolitho - Midshipman begins in Portsmouth in October 1772, where young Richard Bolitho is waiting to join the Gorgon; the second, Midshipman Bolitho and the 'Avenger', finds Bolitho aboard his brother's cutter at Falmouth in the winter of 1773.
About the Author:
Alexander Kent is the author of twenty-seven acclaimed Richard Bolitho books. Under his own name, Douglas Reeman, and in the course of a career spanning forty-five years, he has written over thirty novels and two non-fiction books.
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- PublisherArrow Books Ltd
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0099551314
- ISBN 13 9780099551317
- BindingPaperback
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