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Distant Gunfire: Nathaniel Drinkwater Omnibus 5: Numbers 13 & 14 in series: The Fifth Nathaniel Drinkwater Omnibus: "Shadow of the Eagle", "Ebb Tide" [Paperback]

Richard Woodman (Author)
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Publication Date: 2 Jan 2003 | Series: Nathaniel Drinkwater Omnibus (Book 5)

THE SHADOW OF THE EAGLE - 1814: Napoleon has abdicated and the 'Great War' is at an end. As King Louis XVIII is escorted back to France by an Allied squadron, tensions remain. Attending King Louis, Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater receives secret intelligence of an imminent threat to peace and risks his life and reputation to prevent disaster befalling his country...

EBB TIDE - 1843: Captain Sir Nathaniel Drinkwater has been drawn out of retirement to inspect lighthouses on the west coast of England. However, tragedy strikes, and Drinkwater is suddenly confronted with the spectre of his past life: the sins and follies, valour and heroics, triumphs and disasters.

Plus THE STEEPLE ROCK and THE NIGHT ATTACK: two short stories of Nathaniel Drinkwater's youthful exploits which, with a valediction, On Nathanial Drinkwater, specially written by prize-winning author Richard Woodman, concludes the history of this popular sea-hero.

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Distant Gunfire: Nathaniel Drinkwater Omnibus 5: Numbers 13 & 14 in series: The Fifth Nathaniel Drinkwater Omnibus: "Shadow of the Eagle", "Ebb Tide" + Death Or Damnation: Nathaniel Drinkwater Omnibus 4: Numbers 10, 11 & 12 in series: The Fourth Nathaniel Drinkwater Omnibus: "Under False Colours", "Flying Squadron", "Beneath the Aurora" + Blaze Of Glory: Nathaniel Drinkwater Omnibus 3: Numbers 7, 8 & 9 in series: The Third Nathaniel Drinkwater Omnibus: "Baltic Mission", "In Distant Waters", "Private Revenge"
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  • Paperback: 624 pages
  • Publisher: Sphere (2 Jan 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0751532673
  • ISBN-13: 978-0751532678
  • Product Dimensions: 12.6 x 19.6 x 4.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 100,039 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This author has quietly stolen the weather-gauge from most of his rivals in the Hornblower stakes' - Observer 'Packed with exciting incident, worthy of wide appeal to those who love thrilling nautical encounters and the sea' Nautical Magazine 'Richard Woodman is a true seaman who has become a man of letters. We are the richer for his work' - Tom Cunliffe, CLASSIC BOAT 'In the top rank of sea stories' - LIVERPOOL DAILY POST

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*Fact and Fiction are combined to produce a fascinating recreation of a bygone world at war.

* The fifth omnibus of a successful adventure series featuring Nathaniel Drinkwater.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Distant Gunfire 16 Nov 2009
By Mr. Edmund Clayton Porter
Format:Paperback
Shadow of the Eagle

More secret service mayhem,

Ebb Tide

The White Lady finally comes for Nathaniel, but not without a few interludes. One could say 'deja vu'.

And two more stories which need to be read to understand how they fit in to such a busy life.

Finally an overview of Nathaniel, the man.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Distant Gunfire 7 Jun 2009
By Mr. James S. Penman
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Excellent read for anyone who is into Napoleonic Sea war. A fitting climax to Richard Woodman series about Nathaniel Drinkwater!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Drinkwater series from Amazon 16 Nov 2011
By Jack B. Webb - Published on Amazon.com
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I just finished Distant Gunfire and loved it. It is the last of the series of N. Drinkwater and wish there were more. I love Woodman's books since he adds an appendix that states truth from fiction and adds to the enjoyment of this great historical fiction. I also like the fact tht this series can be purchased through Amazon in the Omnibus version which joins three books into one book. Much more affordable. As I sail the Caribbean, you can find copies of all these books that I have finished spread throughout our ports of call on SV Denali Rose.
5.0 out of 5 stars Fitting end to powerful Drinkwater saga 9 May 2010
By R. Stickley - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Note: I published this under the first omnibus as well. I could not bear that it has a 1-star rating (the reviewer had not yet read the book).

I find it impossible to review Distant Gunfire as a stand alone volume of sea stories. The Nathaniel Drinkwater series is an extraordinary story broken into fourteen volumes, with two short stories, and completed with Richard Woodman's parting comments, "On Nathaniel Drinkwater: A valedictory essay".

The Nathaniel Drinkwater saga is the best seafaring series I have encountered. The author, Richard Woodman, is a seafarer first and an author second who has had a lifelong love of history, especially naval history. These attributes of the author bring an authenticity to the plot events, shipboard interactions and tensions, and ever present challenges of weather and tide. Above all, however, this is the biography of one British seaman in particular, the fictional Nathaniel Drinkwater. In his closing essay Woodman describes Drinkwater beautifully as, "a modest, unsung mover and shaker" from a "respectable" rather than from a genteel, or aristocratic background. Nothing comes easily for him. He is loyal, kind, highly responsible, restless, intuitive, energetic, and forever torn between his love for the sea and love for his wife and family.

I feel quite sad that I have finished this story. It has not, however, been a depressing story--as many of the seafaring stories are. It is set during wartime; there are dear friends lost along the way, but they are not forgotten. Drinkwater takes chances on people. His home gradually includes a cook who is the wife of his coxswain, a handyman who lost both legs in action, and others. Out of compassion he takes on a desperate former lieutenant when has the opportunity. He is an estimable man. He loves his wife though they don't really know each other very well until they've been married thirty years.

Nathaniel Drinkwater is fictional, but he is real. I am glad to have shared his journey.
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