May 23, 2011
Once again we follow the exploits of Captain Jack Aubrey, a British naval officer, and Stephen Maturin, Aubrey’s particular friend, ship surgeon and spy. The Far Side of the World, an excellent navy fiction novel by Patrick O’Brian, is the book that gave name to the movie with the same title, which featured Russell Crow [...]
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May 14, 2011
This is the second book in Richard Woodman’s trilogy about William Kite, and the sequel to The Guineaman. The action in The Privateersman takes place at the beginning of the American Revolution. William Kite is now a widower, a ship-owner, and exiled from Liverpool, where Puella died of grief over their son’s death from cholera [...]
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