Heart of Oak by Alexander Kent

Author:Alexander Kent [Kent, Alexander]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: C429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9781590131480
Publisher: McBooks Press
Published: 2008-04-14T14:30:00+00:00

Midshipman David Napier climbed steadily up the foremast

ratlines, his hands and feet working in unison, the deck

already far below him. He felt the sun on his neck and

shoulders as the foretop loomed over him, and he arched his back to swing out and around it. He could still remember all those first attempts, when he had scrambled up the shrouds with the other boys and midshipmen. The sailor's way, around the futtock shrouds, all toes and fingers like a

monkey. It still made him hold his breath until he was up and reaching for the next challenge.

The deck was angled beneath him, less crowded, only the

duty watch standing by the braces and trimming the freshly set courses.

The first lieutenant had told him to join the masthead

lookout. 'And don't drop that glass, or you need not come

down again!'

To break the tension, perhaps in the only way he knew.

The grating had been lowered, and two men were scrubbing

it clean. The prisoner who had been flogged had already

vanished below.

Napier had heard a marine say in an undertone, 'His lucky

day, I reckon.'

He gripped the barricade of the foretop and stared across the blue water. The land appeared sharper now, with shadows

marking inlets, and the harder wedge of headland beyond.

And he saw the Nautilus, apparently have to, sails loose and aback, poised above her own shadow.

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