Captain CautionDown East Books, 1999. 1. 1. - 314페이지 In this conclusion to the Chronicles of Arundel, the year is 1812 and America has declared war on Britain. The American ship Olive Branch is waylaid by a British cruiser. In the ensuing fight, Captain Dorman is killed and his crew is taken prisoner, including the captain's pretty and strong-willed daughter, Corunna. With his keen eye to detail Roberts weaves a colorful tale of swashbuckling and sea battles. He portrays the bravery of American and French seamen, their sufferings at the hands ot the British the invention of the Gangway Pedulum, and the sailor's dangerous and dramatic escape from the prison hulks. |
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... at the towering spread of canvas that half filled itself in the faint, hot air currents of the doldrums, only to go slack once more, as though every sail, from the vast courses to the small and distant royals, had sickened beneath the ...
... at the towering spread of canvas that half filled itself in the faint, hot air currents of the doldrums, only to go slack once more, as though every sail, from the vast courses to the small and distant royals, had sickened beneath the ...
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Kenneth Roberts. them, but sheltered from the sun beneath a patched skysail that served as an awning, sat a girl whose smooth black head was bent over a long and narrow book. She gazed from under arched brows at the serious face of the ...
Kenneth Roberts. them, but sheltered from the sun beneath a patched skysail that served as an awning, sat a girl whose smooth black head was bent over a long and narrow book. She gazed from under arched brows at the serious face of the ...
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... from St. Paul's Rocks?” “I figure we're forty-two miles northeast bynorth ofem.” The captain hastily corrected a figure in his reckoning, nodded profoundly and tossed his paper overside. “That's what I get, Dan'l.” He handed the ...
... from St. Paul's Rocks?” “I figure we're forty-two miles northeast bynorth ofem.” The captain hastily corrected a figure in his reckoning, nodded profoundly and tossed his paper overside. “That's what I get, Dan'l.” He handed the ...
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... The captain's puckered lips became less sour. “I knew it,” he said. “She's coming.” In the direction toward which ... at the neat darns in the knees of her gray Chinese trousers. Daniel Marvin, staring downat father and daughter, found ...
... The captain's puckered lips became less sour. “I knew it,” he said. “She's coming.” In the direction toward which ... at the neat darns in the knees of her gray Chinese trousers. Daniel Marvin, staring downat father and daughter, found ...
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Kenneth Roberts. II. B. Y MIDAFTERNOON the breeze still held, and the Olive Branch, with a driver on her fore-and-aft ... from the northwest. When he turned at the break, an arm's length from Corunna, hereyesflicked upward athim,only to ...
Kenneth Roberts. II. B. Y MIDAFTERNOON the breeze still held, and the Olive Branch, with a driver on her fore-and-aft ... from the northwest. When he turned at the break, an arm's length from Corunna, hereyesflicked upward athim,only to ...
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