- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: Scribner Book Company (May 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743258002
- ISBN-13: 978-0743258005
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 14.9 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,778,358 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Based on little-known historical fact, but the appeal of the story is in the telling, which is atmospheric, authentic and disclosed from the unusual perspective of the ordinary sailor working his way up the ranks. Genre fiction at its best ... The author had a long career in the Royal Navy, which adds to his prose that extra dash of salty realism.' - Publishing News 'Julian Stockwin tells his sea story with a proper amount of salt and nice attention to historical detail. His hero Tom Kydd takes us inside the action at two of the defining events of 1797 - the Nore Mutiny and the Battle of Camperdown - for a thrilling read.' - Tyrone G. Martin 'Leaves the reader almost tasting the sea-salt on the wind and wanting to search out the previous books ... Long live Kydd' -- Good Book Guide 'Breath-stopping detail ... An engaging sea yarn.' -- Kirkus Reviews 'A storming sea story that should carry a force nine warning.' The Northern Echo -- The Northern Echo Praise for Julian Stockwin's previous books: 'I was soon turning over the pages almost indecently fast ... Roll on, the promised adventures of Kydd and Renzi.' - Independent Gripping ... Rich in action and full of interesting characters, this thrilling novel leaves you in awe of the 18th-century seaman.' - Peterborough Evening Telegraph 'The vantage point of the common sailor gives the nautical novel a fresh twist. In Stockwin's hands the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world.' -- Guardian 'Stockwin paints a vivid picture of life aboard the mighty ship-of-the-line... the harsh naval discipline, the rancid food, and the skill of the common sailor are all skilfully evoked.' -- Daily Express
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Bear a fist there, y' scowbunkin' lubbers!" The loud bellow startled the group around the forebitts who were amiably watching the sailors at the pin-rail swigging off on the top-sail lift. Read the first page
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Bear a fist there, y' scowbunkin' lubbers!" The loud bellow startled the group around the forebitts who were amiably watching the sailors at the pin-rail swigging off on the top-sail lift. Read the first page
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The pairing of down-to-earth Kydd with the intellectual Renzi continues to lift this series above the run-of-the-mill (although Kydd has lost most of his gaucheness by now).
Promotion within the ranks has come to both, as a result of the Caribbean experience in 'Seaflower', and they are part of the Mediterranean Fleet - although in different ships.
While Renzi is 'enjoying' the battle at Cape St.Vincent, Kydd is stuck in Gibraltar 'suffering' the attentions of the Town Major's wife. His new confidante Cockburn tries to warn him off - to no avail, so Renzi drags him off to Venice, where they are trapped by Boney's invading forces. They escape, thanks to an 'ex' of Renzi's, but a tough decision by Renzi seems to signal an end to the friendship as they return to Blighty - and the Nore mutiny. Kydd is in the forefront, but miraculously earns a pardon (thanks to Renzi), then finds himself in the thick of the bloody battle at Camperdown.
Altogether a seeming mish-mash of events ... but after all, this is exactly what a seaman's life would be like: no plan; no greater purpose; no battle tactics; no 'story'; just go where the Admiralty sends the ship and do what the captain commands ... This is what the author is trying to convey in this series - the story is in life's little details.
And very good detail it is; the author's personal research into the locations produces a highly-believable account of little-known events in the most volatile period in British naval history. There follows a taster of the next book 'Quarterdeck', and, as we have come to expect in this genre, his sources of the facts behind the fiction.
This is the most in-depth depiction of the infamous mutiny that I've read, as - for the last time - through Kydd's eyes we see more of the behind-the-scenes machinations than if he were an Aubrey or Hornblower. *****
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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The fourth book in a long running series that just seems to get better and better the characters keep growning and flowing with their ever expanding plot lines and movement into the ever larger arena of their times, as they and their careers / fortunes grow so do the scale and power of the troubles they encounter gone is the innocence to the plot a new origionality pervades the whole story and leaves the reader with a shanty lilt to their speech and a roll to their gait. Book 4 is somewhat darker than those that have gone before and shows a new side to julians work, and for me a more accurate book, something that you can believe, the too good to be true effect has gone, the good guy does not always win... sometimes life sucks!
Having read the rest of the series and read the rest of the reviews i can tell others that Julian did learn and progress the characters even further, and when that was coupled with his obvious passion for the sea and all things nautical, you end up with a series that does rank up there with Forrester and O'Brian, every year i look forward to my new instalment of Kydd...but to get there you have to start at the beginning.
Well recommended
(Parm)
Having read the rest of the series and read the rest of the reviews i can tell others that Julian did learn and progress the characters even further, and when that was coupled with his obvious passion for the sea and all things nautical, you end up with a series that does rank up there with Forrester and O'Brian, every year i look forward to my new instalment of Kydd...but to get there you have to start at the beginning.
Well recommended
(Parm)
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have read every one of Mr Stockwin's books but I fear my time to following this series is comming to an end.
Kydd is just too super a superman for the tales to be read comfortably. Anyone who has followed the great writers of Napolionic fiction can't but help feeling a little bit sick of the way the hero always comes out on top by the most unbelievable turn of circumstance. I have to own up to the fact that I set the standard for this type of book with C S Foresters Hornblower series and Stockwin falls well short.
This book like others in the series is packed with too much technical jargon that is totally allien to most people and is almost never clarified.
A poor effort
Kydd is just too super a superman for the tales to be read comfortably. Anyone who has followed the great writers of Napolionic fiction can't but help feeling a little bit sick of the way the hero always comes out on top by the most unbelievable turn of circumstance. I have to own up to the fact that I set the standard for this type of book with C S Foresters Hornblower series and Stockwin falls well short.
This book like others in the series is packed with too much technical jargon that is totally allien to most people and is almost never clarified.
A poor effort
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