The Sea Devil: The Adventures of Count Felix von Luckner, the Last Raider under Sail - Hardcover

Jefferson, Sam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1472827880 ISBN 13: 9781472827883

Publisher: Osprey Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

In 1916, a three-masted windjammer bearing Norwegian colors sailed out of a quiet anchorage in Germany, loaded with cargo and apparently bound for Australia. Her true mission was quite different.

The ship was, in fact, the SMS Seeadler, commanded by swashbuckling German aristocrat Felix von Luckner. Over an epic voyage, he used cunning and deception to destroy fourteen merchant ships, all the while evading the utterly foxed and infuriated British Admiralty in a daring game of cat and mouse.

This rip-roaring World War I story depicts a life of espionage, counterespionage, and piracy of the most gentlemanly kind.

About this title

About the Author:

Sam Jefferson is a journalist and maritime historian, and is one of the leading authorities on the clipper ship era. He is a former Deputy Editor of Sailing Today, and writes regularly for Classic Boat, Sailing Today, and Traditional Boats and Tall Ships. He is the author of Clipper Ships and the Golden Age of Sail, Sea Fever, and Gordon Bennett and the First Yacht Race Across the Atlantic, all published by Bloomsbury.

Review:

"Excellently written, with a good eye for drama and a passion for ships, Jefferson carries the reader on a swashbuckling tale that sets the German Navy in the unaccustomed role of hero." * The Lady *

About this edition

• Publisher: Osprey Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1472827880
• ISBN 13: 9781472827883
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256