by Patrick O'Brian, John Franklyn-Robbins
This is the first of O'Brian's other series about life in the Royal Navy during the Age of Sail. It`s only one tenth as long as the enormously more famous Aubrey/Maturin series and set nearly 100 years earlier.A fiercely proud Irish boy and his companions dash off rather naively to serve on a ship d...
This book is concerns the first three years of the nautical career of Peter Palafox, son of the curate of a poor parish in the west of Ireland, who shipped as a midshipman in 1740 as Commodore Anson took a squadron to the Pacific to destroy Spanish commerce, and hopefully come home loaded with Spani...
One of O'Brian's earlier works and a forerunner of his seafaring, Aubrey/Maturin series. It does not reach the excellence of writing his later work attains, but this is well-done and quite enjoyable.
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