Passage To Mutiny - Alexander Kent - Paperback Bog - Cornerstone - 2006 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

Readers of Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester will love this sensational swashbuckling naval adventure from multi-million copy seller Alexander Kent. 'One of our foremost writers of naval fiction' - Sunday Times 'Shipwreck, survival...a spirited battle, a splendid yarn' - The Times 'A fantastic book - did not want to put it down' -- ***** Reader review 'Well written, nautically and historically excellent' -- ***** Reader review 'A fast moving, captivating, page turner - not recommended if you want to go to sleep right away' -- ***** Reader review 'A rollicking maritime yarn' -- ***** Reader review ********************************************************************************************* 1789: NEW SOUTH WALES . Into Sydney , capital of Britain's infant colony, sails the frigate Tempest . She is one of His Majesty's ships employed in policing the new southern trade routes. Her captain is Richard Bolitho , who hopes to be ordered home to England. Instead he is despatched on a mission to the islands of the Great South Sea , where he must face hazards of fickle winds, pirates and native islanders. But he is menaced by deeper fears: the men of the Bounty have mutinied in these same waters and from distant Europe comes news of a revolution in France ... Bolitho's adventures continue in With All Despatch .