Ship for the King, A |
Book Category:
Fiction > General
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Author:
Woodman, Richard
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Binding:
Hardcover
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ISBN 13:
9780727880789
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Price:
USD 28.95
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Publication Year:
2011
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Publisher Info
Michelle Duff,
Severn House Publishers Ltd,Salatin House, 19 Cedar Road,
Sutton Surrey - SM2 5DA,United Kingdom
Web: www.severnhouse.com Inquiry
Book Description
A thrilling maritime adventure, the first in a new series set against the backdrop of the English Civil War - Bristol, England, 1618. Kit Faulkner is a young vagrant orphan, but his life changes forever when two gentlemen spot his potential and he is taken aboard their merchant ship, the Swallow, to be trained for a life at sea. As he rises through the ranks, he risks all in encounters with pirates and French corsairs. Meanwhile, England edges ever closer to civil war, and very soon Kit must chose which side he will fight for . . .