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2) Post captain
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Series
Language
English
Description
Presents the continuation of Jack Aubrey's life as the Peace of Amiens docks the Commander onshore, to France, and back to sea.
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Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
The continuing saga of the Royal Navy's Captain Jack Aubrey, now being sued by slaveholders for the ships he confiscated off Africa. At the same his wife is after him for his affair with a mistress. Things improve when he goes to sea to fight the French and captures a ship with gold.
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
The 18th Century heroes, Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr. Stephen Maturin of the Royal Navy, are sent to the fever-ridden Gulf of Guinea to disrupt the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland where the French are mounting an invasion, a mission that will test Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's talents as a secret agent. By the author of The Wine-Dark Sea.
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 14
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Captain Jack Aubrey and mischievous Dr. Stephen Maturin, shipwrecked on a desert island in the South China Sea, fashion a makeshift vessel from the wreckage, only to have it destroyed in a fiery attack by Malay pirates
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
As Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are on their way home to report their latest victory to the government, they are menaced by those out to capture Maturin for his actions against the French intelligence network in the New World.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"The classic first novel of the epic Aubrey/Maturin series, widely considered "the best historical novels ever written" (Richard Snow, New York Times). Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as commander: the fourteen-gun ship HMS Sophie. Meanwhile-after a heated first encounter that nearly comes to a duel-Aubrey and a brilliant but down-on-his-luck physician, Stephen Maturin, strike up an...
Author
Series
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A sinking British ship, her crew and passengers-men and women alike-ruthlessly murdered at the hands of a French privateer. This is the nightmare Ramage and the crew of the Calypso stumble upon while engaged in a sweep for freebooters in the waters off Jamaica. Supported by his men in a thirst for righteous vengeance, Ramage sets sail to bring the murderers to justice.
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Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 24
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 23
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Dewey Lambdin is the reigning master of maritime fiction, celebrated as the heir to Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester. For over twenty years, his devoted fans have followed the adventures of Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, from his days as a midshipman to captain of his own ship and, though on somewhat dubious grounds, a baronetcy. Summer, 1809, and Captain Alan Lewrie, RN, wins fame, glory, and prize-money leading his squadron to victory over four French...
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Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 22
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Dewey Lambdin is the reigning master of maritime fiction, celebrated as the heir to Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester. For over twenty years, his devoted fans have followed the adventures of Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, from his days as a midshipmen to captain of his own ship and, though on somewhat dubious grounds, a baronetcy. 1809 starts out badly for Captain Alan Lewrie, RN, and his ship, HMS Sapphire. They've extracted the sick, cold survivors...
16) Ramage's diamond
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Series
Publisher
Distributed to the Book trade by LPC Group
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Summary: In the sequel to Ramage and the Guillotine, Ramage, Post Captain, takes his crew to blockade Martinique, and his men try to persuade him to marry his love.
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Series
Nathaniel Drinkwater sea stories volume 13
Publisher
Sheridan House
Pub. Date
2002, c1997
Language
English
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 18
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Captain Alan Lewrie of the Royal Navy is ordered to head to Cuba and Spanish Florida to search for French and Spanish privateers who have been preying on British merchantmen and discover if the privateers have been getting aid from the Americans..
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Series
Halfhyde adventures volume 4
Publisher
Distributed by National Book Network
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
With a ship to call his own at last, Royal Navy Lieutenant St Vincent Halfhyde sails for the Dardanelles in command of the little torpedo-boat Vendetta, part of a flotilla sent to rescue a Britsih sailing-ship unlawfully detained by the Russians. Unfortunately, Halfhyde's first command comes complete with a pompous flotilla captain in love with his own voice, and the looming threat of the irascible Admiral Prince Gorsinski. Cutting out the sailing-ship...