This first Matty Graves novel takes place in the early years of the US Navy. Has an ironic first-person viewpoint and more character development, clever quips, and social background than the usual nautical fiction. Brims with action and historical detail as well.
Kaye Dacus,NOOK Book (eBook),Series: Ransome Trilogy Series 3, English-language edition,Pub by Harvest House Publishers on 08-01-2011
"One of the best novelists since Jane Austen....The Hundred Days may be the best installment yet....I give O'Brian's fans joy of it."—Philadelphia Inquirer
Oliver Baldwin, recently back from the Barbary Wars, sets sail in the U.S. frigate Chesapeake on a routine patrol. The patrol becomes anything but routine when the ship is confronted by the 50-gun HMS Leopard outside the Virginia Capes. Commodore James Barron refuses the British captain's orders ...
Stuart Donald,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Wilson, Neil Publishing
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The narrative describes the life of an Englishman, stolen from a well-to-do family as a child and raised by Gypsies who eventually makes his way to sea. One half of the book concerns Singleton's crossing of Africa and the later half concerns his life as a pirate. Defoe's description of piracy fo...
At the outset of an adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are pursuing a prize through the Great South Sea, where the strange color of the ocean waters (reminding them of Homer's famous description) is a portent of violence. Patrick O'Brian's bril...
The shaping of a hero and a key battle of the American Revolution.
But, notwithstanding, the king weighed not his said promise, and as an infidel that hath not the fear of God before his eyes, nor regard of his word, albeit he was a king, he caused the said Sonnings to pay the custom to the uttermost penny; and afterwards ordered him to make haste away, saying t...
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Two Novellas by YAE comprises two works by Youssouf Amine Elalamy, also known as YAE, translated from French into English for the first time. A Moroccan in New York tells the tale of a young man seeking to make sense of two cultures which seemingly could not be more opposite, yet, are on many lev...
pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The deepest parts of the ocean are totally unknown to us, admits Professor Aronnax early in this novel. What goes on in those distant depths? What creatures inhabit, or could inhabit, those regions twelve o...
AN EXPERIMENT IN EMOTION . . . A genial . . . bachelor, whom the outside world called selfish because it derived no particular benefit from him. . . . OSCAR WILDE: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.
Toward the latter part of May, 1690, the three-masted schooner the Unicorn sailed from Rochelle for the island of Martinique.
pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Oh, but the door that waits a friend Swings open to the day. There stood no warder at my gate To bid love stand or stay. You don't believe in marriage, and I can't afford to marry - Gilbert Stanning laughed...
pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. 'HIS MASTERPIECE,' which in the original French bears the title of L'Oeuvre, is a strikingly accurate story of artistic life in Paris during the latter years of the Second Empire. Amusing at times, extremel...
It was the great ball of the season at Fort Ellsworth. For a special reason it had begun unusually late; but, though the eighth dance was on, the great event of the evening had not happened yet. Until that should happen, the rest, charming though it might be, was a mere curtain-raiser to keep men...
In the 11th book of this popular series, Napoleon Bonaparte continues planning for the invasion of England as Admiral Horatio Nelson and the Royal Navy patrol the seas, seeking out their elusive enemy. When convoluted political machinations in England lead to the impeachment of the head of the Na...
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On a previous voyage, a mysterious white whale had ripped off the leg of a sea captain named Ahab. Now the crew of the Pequod, on a pursuit that features constant adventure and horrendous mishaps, must follow the mad Ahab into the abyss to satisfy his unslakeable thirst for vengeance. Narrated by...
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A tale of adventure and evangelism, Ballantyne transforms into engaging historical fiction the well-known facts of the Icelandic Saga--stories of exploration and adventure, blessed marriage, alternating turmoil and peace with indigenous people--all sprinkled with delightful and humorous stories o...
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"The great Pacific is the scene of our story." One of a series of excellent stories of adventure for the young with which this prolific Scottish author's name is popularly associated.