Heart Of Oak
$25.20
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2008
Summary
The new Bolitho novel from our greatest living naval writer.
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, r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099484264 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099484269 |
| Author: | Alexander Kent |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2008 |
| Weight: | 197g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Richard Bolitho |
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Critics Review
One of our foremost writers of naval fiction * The Sunday Times *As you would expect, Kent is a dab hand at plotting and at action scenes, and this novel is another accomplished performance from the old man of the sea * The First Post *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 *
About The Author
Alexander Kent
Alexander Kent is the author of twenty-seven acclaimed books featuring Richard Bolitho. Under his own name, Douglas Reeman, and in the course of a career spanning forty-five years, he has written over thirty novels and two non-fiction books.
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