The age of tall ships and cannon fire–when the seamanship and derring-do of British sailors was shown time and again aboard the great ships that sailed for trade, discovery or warfare.
In this wonderful collection, Mike Ashley has gathered together many of our best-loved writers of seafaring stories, whose tales of storms and shipwrecks, the great sea battles of the Napoleonic era, and the sheer, dangerous excitement of life before the mast, come across so tellingly in these vivid accounts.
Includes stories by: Patrick O'Brien, Kenneth Bulmer, Richard Butler, C. S. Forester, and Richard Woodman, among others.
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