Historical
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 | 1983-06-29 | Author:Patrick O'Brian
CHAPTER SEVEN During the Niobe's return to Suez the usual northerly breezes blew with scarcely a pause; she had to beat up all the way, often tacking two or three ...
( Category:
Sea Stories
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 |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Susanna Gregory [Gregory, Susanna]
Chapter 9 The next day, Saturday, dawned clear and bright, but Chaloner was unimpressed to find that his cold was still with him. Would the thing never go? He had ...
( Category:
Historical
January 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-17 | Author:Susanna Gregory [Gregory, Susanna]
It was still not fully light when Chaloner began to walk up King Street, and as it was too early to go to Newgate, he decided to visit the Rainbow. ...
( Category:
Historical
January 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-01 | Author:Susanna Gregory [Gregory, Susanna]
Chapter 8 ‘You enjoyed that,’ said Sarah accusingly, as she and Chaloner walked to the Lincoln’s Inn stables to collect her horse. ‘I had something interesting to tell him, and ...
( Category:
Historical
January 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-02 | Author:Susanna Gregory [Gregory, Susanna]
Chapter 8 The Tothill Street house was empty when Chaloner arrived home, and there was a scribbled message from Hannah saying she would be home late and that the servants ...
( Category:
Historical
January 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-20 | Author:Susanna Gregory [Gregory, Susanna]
The warden who answered the gate was an obese, grim-faced man with rotten teeth that might have been responsible for his surly temper. He spat on the floor as Wiseman ...
( Category:
Historical
January 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 1970-01-01 | Author:Alexander Kent [Kent, Alexander]
Without looking at his watch Bolitho knew it was close on noon. The sun which had been in his face since early dawn now blazed down from directly overhead with ...
( Category:
Military
January 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 1973-01-01 | Author:George MacDonald Fraser [Fraser, George MacDonald]
* * * I've been in a good few sieges in my time, from full-dress affairs like Cawnpore, Lucknow, and the Pekin nonsense a few years ago, to more domestic ...
( Category:
Historical
January 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 1958-01-01 | Author:Douglas Reeman [Reeman, Douglas]
I’m so very sorry about the way I treated you when we last met, but I now know that we both understand. If you still want to see me, I ...
( Category:
Military
January 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:George MacDonald Fraser [Fraser, George MacDonald]
Any doubts I might have had about the military bandobast of the Wollo Gallas were banished entirely in the next few hours when I conferred with their commanders. They were ...
( Category:
Historical
January 16,2015 )
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