Tyger (Kydd Sea Adventures): A Kydd Sea Adventure: 16 - Hardcover

Stockwin, Julian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1590137000 ISBN 13: 9781590137000

Publisher: McBooks Press, 2015

Synopsis

The latest volume in the popular high-seas nautical adventure series featuring the dashing and debonair naval commander Thomas Kydd Kydd is offered a new command but that ship is still under construction, so he decides to look up one of his old naval friends and enjoy some of the pleasures of London. This is cut short when he is summoned to Portsmouth to bear witness at the trial of Sir Home Popham for his actions at Cape Town and Buenos Aires. Kydd confides in friends his true feelings about the way his old commander was treated and, when his opinions become public, finds himself in hot water with the Admiralty. Kydd is punished for his indiscretion by being given a different command: a mutiny ship, Tyger, moored at Yarmouth. On board he faces numerous challenges from a hostile and dejected crew, still under a malign influence. It will take all of Kydd's seamanship and leadership in voyages to the far north and in Baltic waters to turn the ship around. The measure of his success is tested in a cataclysmic battle against three Prussian frigates under the French flag.

About this title

Review:

"High-seas adventure, ocean battles, bloody melees, and general villainy . . . Stockwin's series is approaching the level of C.S. Forester's Hornblower books." --Publisher's Weekly

"Stockwin, who went to sea-training school at 14 and ended up as a lieutenant commander, gives a terrifying account of the brutal life and casual death aboard an 18th-century warship." --Guardian

"This heady adventure blends fact and fiction in rich, authoritative detail." --Nautical Magazine

"Historians will forget they're reading fiction while story-lovers won't mind that they're learning history." --Jason R. Musteen, Assistant Professor, United States Military Academy

About the Author:

Julian Stockwin is a retired teacher and educational psychologist, and a former lieutenant commander of the Royal Navy Reserve. He entered the British Navy at age 15 and was eventually named a Member of the British Empire. He is the author of the Kydd Sea Adventures series.

About this edition

• Publisher: McBooks Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1590137000
• ISBN 13: 9781590137000
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352