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41) The sand pebbles
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Description
A U.S. gunboat cruises China's Yangtze River in 1926, witnessing the awakening of a bloody revolution.
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Having sunk the first man-of-war under his command within weeks, Matthew Quinton is determined to complete his second mission without loss of life or honor. His suspicion grows that the previous captain of the "Jupiter" was murdered and many among his crew have something to hide.
44) H.M.S. Surprise
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"Third in the series of Aubrey-Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy enjoying overwhelming local superiority. But somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the prize that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams: the ships sent by Napoleon to...
45) Tragedy at Honda
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Publisher
Chilton Co., Book Division
Pub. Date
1960
Physical Desc
243 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Author
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
x, 718 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Description
Drawing on archives from around the world, Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker also deploy new evidence from Armada shipwrecks off the coasts of Ireland and Scotland. Their illustrated account provides a fresh understanding of how the rival fleets came into being; how they looked, sounded, and smelled; and what happened when they finally clashed. Looking beyond the events of 1588 to the complex politics which made war between England and Spain inevitable,...
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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323 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Acclaimed, award-winning author James L. Nelson - praised as "a master of both his period and the English language" by Patrick O'Brian - returns to the world of sea and sail in this page-turning historical novel. Jack Biddlecomb has much to live up to, being as he is the eldest son of the esteemed Captain Isaac Biddlecomb, wealthy merchant captain, leading light of the War for American Independence, and newly-minted congressman. Jack finds himself...
48) Endeavour
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
16 CDs (19 hrs. 30 min.) : audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The first history of its kind, Peter Moore's Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World is a revealing and comprehensive account of the storied ship's role in shaping the Western world. Endeavour famously carried James Cook on his first major voyage, charting for the first time New Zealand and the eastern coast of Australia. Yet it was a ship with many lives: During the battles for control of New York in 1776, she witnessed the bloody birth of the...
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John Pearce novels volume 15
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
John Pearce is hiding in Gravelines with his mysterious companion, known to him as Oliphant. Although they find a crew willing to take them back to England, they learn on the journey that Pearce's old enemies, the Tolland brothers, are still active on the route, and may have been responsible for the murder of Catherine Carruthers. Back in England their problems continue: Pearce must seek to mend fences with Emily Barclay, in a relationship in which...
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John Pearce novels volume 12
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 20 cm
Description
John Pearce, having negotiated the highly questionable sale of the two French prizes taken in The Devil to Pay, has left HMS Flirt, as well as the crew and the wounded Henry Digby in Brindisi and is headed for Naples to see his lover. In an uncomfortable journey he seeks to work out a way to best both Admiral Sir William Hotham and Captain Ralph Barclay, men who are his sworn enemies. All his calculations are thrown into turmoil when he discovers...
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John Pearce novels volume 14
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 23 cm
Description
John Pearce is going home. But he has to avoid capture by an Algerine warship, having his Pelicans pressed into a British frigate and that's before they are at risk of being hanged for desertion once home. Then there is the problem of Emily Barclay and their son Adam. By cunning and bluff he protects his friends, but not his troubled love life. In a whirlwind of action, there are forged wills, devious trades, contrived murders and dangerous spy missions,...
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John Pearce novels volume 10
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 20 cm
Description
1794. The Mediterranean is proving dangerous waters for John Pearce and his Pelicans. Having left his lover Emily, who is also the wife of his mortal enemy Ralph Barclay, in the Tuscan port of Leghorn, Pearce is detained in Naples. When he unknowingly delivers a letter promoting the shady and incompetent Admiral Hotham, Pearce finds himself entangled in a political plot that soon puts those closest to him at peril. When reunited with Emily, John Pearce...
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Horatio Hornblower saga volume 3
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 21 cm
Description
In the midst of his wedding reception, Hornblower receives orders to report the next day to his command in the Channel Fleet and help protect England against Napoleon's threatened invasion.
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Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 19
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
Participating in the 1805 Battle of Cape Town after the death of Admiral Nelson, Captain Lewrie voyages to South America to assist Britain's campaigns on the Spanish colonies only to confront a formidable adversary.
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Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Following his rapid rise through the ranks of the King's Navy, Hornblower is assigned to the HMS Renown which is sailing to the West Indies to subdue a pirate fleet. Her brutal captain is rapidly going insane forcing Hornblower to take action that threatens not only his naval career but his life as well.
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"The first novel in a brilliant new series by award-winning historian James L. Haley, featuring young midshipman Bliven Putnam as he begins his naval service aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. It is 1801 and President Thomas Jefferson has assembled a deep-water navy to fight the growing threat of piracy, as American civilians are regularly kidnapped by Islamist brigands and held for ransom, enslaved, or killed, all at their captors' whim. The Berber States...
57) By force of arms
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Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
324 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
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Smithsonian Books/Collins
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xiv, 368 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Description
Documents the tale of four U.S. Navy ships that battled a deadly typhoon in 1944, a storm that resulted in 756 deaths, three sunken ships, and extensive damage to other naval vessels, in an account told from the perspectives of survivors and rescue teams.
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