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Author
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2008, c2001
Language
English
Description
Kydd and fellow novice sailor Nicholas Renzi leave the lumbering Duke William for the sleek frigate Artemis and promptly find themselves in cutthroat battle again, overmatched against the French frigate Citoyenne. The face-off ends in hand-to-hand combat and a hard-won victory for the men of the Artemis, but an act of desertion threatens both the valued friendship of Renzi and Kydd and their futures with the Artemis.
85) Distant seas
Author
Publisher
Fantastic Books
Pub. Date
2015, c2010
Language
English
Description
"Follow Louella Parsons, a profesional, world-class sailor, as she competes - and faces near disaster - in Le Gran Venee, Earth's premier race around the world. Surviving that, she finds herself testing her sailing prowess deep in Jupiter's atmosphere. The wine-red seas of Jupiter make the brutal conditions she faced in the Southern Ocean seem trivial. Louella and her partner then face a new challenge --to sail across the frigid plains in the thin-to-nonexistent...
Author
Publisher
White Dog Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Fourteenth-century Scottish sailing master Robert Williams leaves port for a short, but profitable voyage around the British Isles, his ship laden with cargo including the king's goat. A sudden and powerful storm erupts, sending his ship farther off course than he or any of his seasoned crew have journeyed before, driving them into astonishing discovery and relentless tragedy, and flinging Robert into a world unlike any he has imagined. In that new...
87) Persephone
Author
Series
Kydd novels volume 18
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
November 1807. Captain Sir Thomas Kydd must sail to Lisbon to aid the Portuguese Royal Family's evacuation in the face of Napoleon's ruthless advance through Iberia. In the chaos of the threatened city an old passion is reawakened when he meets Persephone Lockwood, a beautiful and determined admiral's daughter from his past. But the Royal Family's destination is Brazil, Perspehone's England, and it seems Kydd's chance has gone again. Only later he...
88) Marinero raso
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Océano de México, S.A. de C.V
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Esteban, un nicaragüense exguerrillero sandinista es llevado, junto con otros catorce hombres, desde América Central con la promesa de trabajar a bordo de un buque de carga. Sin embargo, el Urus es un oxidado armatoste abandonado en un aislado muelle de Brooklyn. La tripulación vive meses en condiciones terribles: atrapados, sucios, enfermos y humillados; víctimas de su propia pobreza y la trapacería de los demás. Cuando Esteban abandona el...
Author
Series
Murray's home and colonial library volume no. 15
Publisher
John Murray, Albemarle Street
Pub. Date
1846.
Language
English
Description
Herman Melville's first book, partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on Nuku Hiva (which Melville spelled as Nukuheva) in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands.
90) Mourir sur Seine
Author
Publisher
Éditions des Falaises
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
Sixième jour de l'Armada 2008. Un marin est retrouvé poignardé au beau milieu des quais de Rouen!Un meurtre ... huit millions de témoins. Quel tueur invisible a pu commettre ce crime impossible? Quel étrange pacte semble lier des matelots du monde entier? De quels trésors enfouis dans les méandres de la Seine sont-ils à la recherche? Quel scandale dissimulent les autorités?Une implacable machination ... qui prend en otage huit millions de...
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