Heart Of Oak - Hardcover

Kent, Alexander

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 043401351X ISBN 13: 9780434013517

Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

It is February 1818, and Adam Bolitho longs for marriage and a safe personal harbour. But with so much of Britain's fleet redundant, he knows he is fortunate to be offered H.M.S. Onward, a new 38-gun frigate whose first mission is not war but diplomacy, as consort to the French frigate Nautilus. Under the burning sun of North Africa, Bolitho is keenly aware of the envy and ambition among his officers, the troubled, restless spirits of his midshipmen, and the old enemy's proximity. It is only when Nautilus becomes a sacrificial offering on the altar of empire that every man discovers the brotherhood of the sea is more powerful than the bitter memories of an ocean of blood and decades of war.

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Review:

"The storytelling has an easy mastery; the prose is lean and muscular, without a word wasted. How well Kent knows his stuff! Not just the jargon of the high seas -- the pawls and maintops and the quarter-boats and the catheads -- but the psychology of naval men in uniform." --"Sunday Telegraph" "From the Trade Paperback edition."

From the Publisher:

The new Bolitho novel from our greatest living naval writer.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 043401351X
• ISBN 13: 9780434013517
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272