Legend has it that Patrick O'Brian's editor paid that author's first manuscript what he considered to be high praise indeed: he compared it to the works of Dudley Pope. The late Pope's naval histories are renowned for the way they share the riveting, evocative character of his novels. This is true of none more than his masterly The Black Ship, a work of nonfiction that reads like a thriller. In a true story evocative of Mutiny on the Bounty, Pope recounts one of the most brutal episodes in British Naval history, the bloody ...
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Legend has it that Patrick O'Brian's editor paid that author's first manuscript what he considered to be high praise indeed: he compared it to the works of Dudley Pope. The late Pope's naval histories are renowned for the way they share the riveting, evocative character of his novels. This is true of none more than his masterly The Black Ship, a work of nonfiction that reads like a thriller. In a true story evocative of Mutiny on the Bounty, Pope recounts one of the most brutal episodes in British Naval history, the bloody mutiny aboard H.M.S. Hermione, and the Royal Navy's daring recapture of the same ship.
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Add this copy of Black Ship.; . (First Account of the Bloodiest Mutiny to cart. $12.00, very good condition, Sold by Wonderful Books By Mail rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Durham, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1964 by J.B. Lippincott.
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Illustrated by 11 Illustrations & large map.. Very Good. 9x6" VERY GOOD CONDITION, clean, solild, bright. name ep Daniel Dixon; BLACK SPINE TITLES ON BLUE SPINE CLOTH...BLACK HARD COVERS...White ENDPAPERS..; GLOSSY ILUST SECTIONS; 367pg pages; Pope's naval histories are renowned for the way they share the riveting, evocative character of his novels. This is true of none more than his masterly The Black Ship, a work of nonfiction that reads like a thriller. In a true story evocative of Mutiny on the Bounty, Pope recounts one of the most brutal episodes in British Naval history, the bloody mutiny aboard H.M.S. Hermione, and the Royal Navy's daring recapture of the same ship.
Add this copy of The Black Ship to cart. $43.00, very good condition, Sold by Robinson Street Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Binghamton, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Secker & Warburg.
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Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes Pages a little tan, dust jacket 1 1/2 inch closed tear to bottom spine, else very good indeed.
Add this copy of The Black Ship to cart. $46.53, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Alison Press / Martin Secker &.