
"Lambdin is closing on Patrick O'Brian as the most prolific historical novelist to celebrate a Royal Navy mariner." —Washington TimesIn 1805, with news of Admiral Nelson's death fresh on his mind, Captain Lewrie's HMS Reliant joins up in the voyage that will culminate in the Battle of Cape Town, in which the British wrested control of South Africa from the Dutch. In the wake of that victory, Lewri...
File Size: 1654 KB
Print Length: 370 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1250042526
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books (February 26, 2013)
Publication Date: February 26, 2013
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B008RLTZ0U
Text-to-Speech: ::::
X-Ray:
Word Wise: Enabled
Lending: Not Enabled
Format: PDF ePub fb2 TXT fb2 ebook
- Dewey Lambdin epub
- Dewey Lambdin ebooks
- Thomas Dunne Books (February 26, 2013) epub
- Literature and Fiction epub books
- February 26, 2013 pdf
Well written tale focusing on the adventures of British Naval Captain, Alan Lewrie. I'll admit this story brought C. S. Forrester's Hornblower series to mind. While Lewrie and Hornblower are both dedicated and capable seamen operating in the same ...
t to South America, where Britain's attacks on Buenos Aires and other Spanish colonies have not been faring as well. But the worst is yet to come, and soon Lewrie will be facing a battle at sea that will put his naval career and life at risk.Dewey Lambdin has been roundly praised as one of the best living novelists writing in the vein of Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester. In Hostile Shores he returns with an exciting, battle-heavy tale of life in the King's Navy, starring the rough-edged hero Captain Alan Lewrie.