Sea Adventures
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Doyle

VI 4° NORTH, 160° WEST THE TWO YOUNG ISLAND RATS, kiore, and the tiny warbler, bokikokiko, had long ago come to an understanding, a tenuous peace, something like a truce ...
( Category: Sea Stories January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1990-06-15 | Author:Richard Woodman [Woodman, Richard]

'He doesn't want to hang 'em,' said Quilhampton to the lounging officers in the wardroom. 'He'll have to. A court martial at Prince of Wales Island will condemn them without ...
( Category: Military January 29,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1970-05-06 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER Eight 'I am entirely at a loss, upon my honour; and so I lay the position before you, confiding wholly in your candour.. I am entirely at a loss: ...
( Category: Historical January 18,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1979-04-29 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX It was with a feeling not unlike dread that Stephen followed Mrs Wogan into Franchon's hotel. The people behind the desk were talking French and this, together with ...
( Category: Historical January 18,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1977-12-30 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX Knowing of the presence of a hostile ship of the line in the same ocean, the Leopard redoubled her attention to gunnery. Although the presence was remote and ...
( Category: Historical January 18,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1989-03-30 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX It was quite true: within two days of being immersed in eastern ways, climate, food, languages, faces, expressions, and forms of civility Fox was a different man, a ...
( Category: Sea Stories January 18,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1980-11-07 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER EIGHT It was a black night for the squadron when the Ariel slipped her moorings and stood out into the rain-swept midnight sea, for she carried with her most ...
( Category: Sea Stories January 18,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1995-07-30 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX In the afternoon of Saturday, with the Berlings in sight on the larboard bow, the topgallant-sail breeze that had been bowling the Ringle along so handsomely since Cape ...
( Category: Historical January 18,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1991-02-27 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SEVEN "No, no. Keep your sword and give me your hand," I said; and perhaps that may sound rather like Drury Lane, when the fellow in pink breeches and ...
( Category: Historical January 18,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1993-04-29 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SEVEN The little girls, stiff with pride and amazement, and fairly soused with holy water, were handed into the carriage after pontifical High Mass in Lima cathedral. They smoothed ...
( Category: Sea Stories January 18,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1974-01-01 | Author:Dudley Pope [Pope, Dudley]

In the great cabin Ramage found an elegantly carved desk, with an inlaid top set facing the stern lights. He sat down and looked out at the smooth wake the ...
( Category: Military January 16,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1978-01-01 | Author:Dudley Pope [Pope, Dudley]

cheekbones, eyes that laughed - or, when she was angry, stabbed. Aunt Gianna was slim with an imperious body and jutting breasts that made the ship and the sea fade ...
( Category: Military January 16,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1977-01-01 | Author:Dudley Pope [Pope, Dudley]

tacks will give him more confidence.' 'He's going to need it,' Southwick said grimly. 'If he arrives five minutes late it might be all up with us!' 'And if we ...
( Category: Military January 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 1986-01-01 | Author:Dudley Pope [Pope, Dudley]

Chapter Ten Ned did not think four men in a boat could take so long to get alongside theGriffin and board. Yes, Julio could not rush back because if any ...
( Category: Military January 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Dewey Lambdin [Lambdin, Dewey]

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT They got beyond Montdidier by farm roads as the unhappy Fleury family, then the Plumbs altered their disguises to those of a pair of old crones, Sir Pulteney ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense January 16,2015 )