Captain CautionKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012. 8. 15. - 320페이지 It is 1812 and America has declared war on Britain. The American ship Olive Branch is waylaid by a British cruiser. Captain Dorman is killed, and his crew is taken prisoner, including the captain's pretty and strong-willed daughter, Corunna. Widely recognized for his careful attention to historical details, Kenneth Roberts portrays the bravery of American seamen, their sufferings in the mist-shrouded walls of Dartmoor Prison, the invention of the Gangway Pendulum, and the sailors' dangerous and dramatic escape. |
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... gun hasn't been fired!” “It's no good, Corunna! It's like breaking rockwith your fists.” She struck him inthe face and kicked athim. “Damn you!” she cried.“Firethat gun! Fire that gun! They've killed my father!” He clutched the front of ...
... gun hasn't been fired!” “It's no good, Corunna! It's like breaking rockwith your fists.” She struck him inthe face and kicked athim. “Damn you!” she cried.“Firethat gun! Fire that gun! They've killed my father!” He clutched the front of ...
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... guns, and by Ged, sir,you're in luck,all ofyou, nottobe shark meatthis very moment. Why,demn you, sir,why didn't you heave to? You might have costus a man! You're no better than madmen, the allof you, always playing fool—declaring war ...
... guns, and by Ged, sir,you're in luck,all ofyou, nottobe shark meatthis very moment. Why,demn you, sir,why didn't you heave to? You might have costus a man! You're no better than madmen, the allof you, always playing fool—declaring war ...
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... guns had loosed their double loadsofball and grape atclose range. He groaned aloudat the recollection of the words Corunna Dorman had spoken to him when,by his quickness, death and destruction had been averted. “ 'Sneaking, cowardly ...
... guns had loosed their double loadsofball and grape atclose range. He groaned aloudat the recollection of the words Corunna Dorman had spoken to him when,by his quickness, death and destruction had been averted. “ 'Sneaking, cowardly ...
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