From Sea to Sea, Letters of Marque
From Sea to Sea, Letters of Marque

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Publisher: Sagwan Press

Published: 2018-02-02

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9781376501803

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The Letter of Marque (Vol. Book 12) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
The Letter of Marque (Vol. Book 12) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

Author: Patrick O'Brian

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2011-12-05

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0393063658

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"Fine stuff...[The Letter of Marque] leaves the devotee of naval fiction eager for sequels." —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World Captain Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he did not commit. His old friend Stephen Maturin, usually cast as a ship’s surgeon to mask his discreet activities on behalf of British Intelligence, has bought for Aubrey his former ship the Surprise to command as a privateer, more politely termed a letter of marque. Together they sail on a desperate mission against the French, which, if successful, may redeem Aubrey from the private hell of his disgrace. A nighttime battle with an unusual climax, a jewel of great value, and Maturin’s fondness for opium make this segment of Patrick O’Brian’s masterful series both original and profoundly exciting.

From Sea to Sea
From Sea to Sea

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-02

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9781330564912

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Excerpt from From Sea to Sea: Letters of Marque Except for those who, under compulsion of La sick certificate, are flying Bombaywards, it is good for every man to see some little of the great Indian Empire and the strange folk who move about it. It is good to escape for a time from the House of Rimmon - be it office or cutchery - and to go abroad under no more exacting master than personal inclination, and with no more definite plan of travel than has the horse, escaped from pasture, free upon the country side. The first result of such freedom is extreme bewilderment, and the second reduces the freed to a state of mind which, for his sins, must be the normal portion of the Globe-Trotter - the man who "does" kingdoms in days and writes books upon them in weeks. And this desperate facility is not as strange as it seems. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.