Dudley Pope’s Yorke-series consists of four books: Buccaneer (1981), Admiral (1982), Galleon (1986), and Corsair (1987). While I much prefer the Lord Ramage series by Pope, I enjoy the York series as well. It is an interesting naval fiction series in that it deals with privateers – those “barely legal” ships outfitted…
Dudley Pope is primarily known for his excellent and very entertaining series of navy fiction books from the Napoleonic era, featuring Lord Nicolas Ramage. However, Pope also authored a number of non-fiction books, as well as a navy fiction series known…
Ramage and the Renegades is a great historical fiction book and important in the Lord Ramage series. In this book, the Marchesa of Volterra, who has been Lord Ramage’s love through the series so far, realizes that marriage is not going to…
The Lord Ramage series by Dudley Pope is one of my personal favorites among the many good nautical fiction series. It’s clever, funny, and full of action. Ramage’s Devil starts in 1803, during the short-lived Peace of Amiens, which lasted from March 1802…
The Lord Ramage series by Dudley Pope is one of my favorite series. It is very, very entertaining and full of clever naval action. A very imaginative and interesting series! In Governor Ramage, the fourth book in the Ramage series, Lieutenant…
I like this series better and better. I thought the first book I read was good, but not in any way exceptional. But this book, actually the eleventh in the sequence I think, more or less blew my mind. To…
Lord Ramage is an interesting and likable character. Unlike most of the heroes of the naval fiction about the age of sail, as for example Richard Bolitho, Alan Lewrie, and Jack Aubrey, the fictional character Ramage has an upper-class background…
After a spell on dry land, Lord Ramage and HMS Calypso are ordered by Admiral Lord Nelson to join his fleet at Cadiz in Spain. Ramage joins the fleet after a speedy journey from England (however, Nelson’s journey was even faster). His first mission there…
Many things may be said about Dudley Pope’s nautical fiction series from the age of sail, featuring Lord Ramage. What cannot be said is that it is boring! Dudley Pope is a great writer, and his books about Lord Ramage are always full…
In this installment in the Lord Ramage series, Captain Lord Ramage and his HMS Calypso return from Devil’s Island, but dark news awaits them: Ramage’s wife Sarah is missing. And even though Ramage wants so return home immediately, he Ramage’s…
