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“ernest gray”

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  • Surgeon's Mate-The Diary of John Knyveton, Surgeon in the British Fleet During the Seven Years War 1756-1762

    by Ernest Gray ...
    Surgeon's Mate' is a detailed and bloody eye-witness account of a Naval Surgeon in the thick of military action, and is highly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of any historian or anyone with an interest in military history. Many of these earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these ... Read more

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  • The Master Mariner

    by Nicholas Monsarrat ...
    This is Nicholas Monsarrat's final masterpiece, an epic tale of the sea and seafaring from the sixteenth century to near the end of the twentieth.Told from the point of view of Mathew Lawe, a young Devon sailor who is cursed after a spectacular act of cowardice to wander 'the wild waters till all the seas run dry', it is historical fiction but beset by real events. Monsarrat follows the great ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Every Man Will Do His Duty

    An Anthology of Firsthand Accounts from the Age of Nelson 1793–1815

    by Dean King, John B. Hattendorf ...
    Napoleonic-era accounts of life aboard Royal Navy warships: "Readers of Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester will enjoy this collection" ( Library Journal ).At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British Navy was the mightiest instrument of war the world had ever known. The Royal Navy patrolled the seas from India to the Caribbean, connecting an empire with footholds in every corner of the earth ... Read more

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  • The Mammoth Book of Pirates

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Series Book 384 - Mammoth Books
    A rollicking tour of the history of the high seas with Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, 'Calico Jack' Rackham, Anne Bonney and other figures of maritime legend.Includes Francis 'The Scourge of Spain' Drake's audacious night-time treasure raid on Nombre de Dios; Alexander Exquemelin's fly-on-the-wall account of the 'wicked order of pirates, or robbers of the sea'; the journal of William Dampier, found ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Best Pirate Stories Ever Told

    Edited by Stephen Brennan ...
    Series series Best Stories Ever Told
    Over the years, thousands of tales both true and fantastic have been told about the dastardly thievery of pirates, and their rum-drunk exploits and high-seas violence never fail to delight. Now in a brand-new series collection, The Best Pirate Stories Ever Told includes many of the very best pirate yarns ever created on history’s most debaucherous scalawags. Anyone who loves a good story full of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Lord Quillifer

    by Walter Jon Williams ...
    Series series Quillifer
    “For all of you who need some great fantasy to read while you're waiting for The Winds of Winter...try Quillifer, by Walter Jon Williams. WJW is always fun, but this might be his best yet, a delight from start to finish, witty, colorful, exciting and amusing by turns, exquisitely written.” —George R. R. Martin, author of the Song of Ice and Fire series“Chock full of derring-do, blood and thunder, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855

    by E. Keble Chatterton ...
    According to the Preface: "I have in the following pages endeavoured to resist the temptation to weave a web of pleasant but unreliable fiction round actual occurrences. That which is here set forth has been derived from facts, and in almost every case from manuscript records. It aims at telling the story of an eventful and exciting period according to historical and not imaginative occurrence. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mammoth Book of Men O' War

    Stories from the glory days of sail

    by Mike Ashley, Jon E. Lewis ...
    Series Book 478 - Mammoth Books
    Eighteen classic sea-faring tales by the best-loved writers of the genre, including Patrick O'Brian, C. S. Forester, Richard Woodman, Herman Melville and Frederick Marryat. Featuring favourite heroes such as Captain Jack Aubrey, Adam Hardy, Horatio Hornblower and Nathaniel Drinkwater.These tales vividly re-create the age of the glory days of sail, aboard the great ships that sailed for trade, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Hangings, Sinkings and Trust in God: Life and Death onboard British Warships in the 1700’s and 1800’s

    by Peter Brent ...
    Did you know…Until 1812 the British Royal Navy would seize Americans and force them into British military service. This was one of the causes of the war between Britain and the US between 1812 and 1815 (see Pressgangs).British seamen in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were extremely badly paid, but by helping to seize foreign ships they could earn rewards equivalent to a million dollars or ... Read more

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  • Landsman Hay

    by Robert Hay ...
    Series series Seafarers' Voices
    A Royal Navy sailor recounts his adventuresome life at sea in this colorful memoir offering a rare look at early nineteenth century naval life.In 1803, at the age of fourteen, Robert Hay ran away from home to join the Royal Navy. For the next eight years, he experienced the trials and tribulations of a sailor's life. Intelligent and capable, he served a series of officers, all of whom helped ... Read more

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  • Life of a Sailor

    by Frederick Chamier ...
    Series series Seafarers' Voices
    Chamier was a Royal Navy officer, who like his exact contemporary Captain Marryat is best remembered for a series of naval novels. The Life of a Sailor was his first publication and is usually catalogued as fiction, which may be a tribute to Chamiers story-telling skills but it is wrong the book is an exact account of his naval career, with every personality, ship and event he describes ... Read more

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  • Man-of-War Life

    by Charles Nordhoff ...
    Series series Seafarers' Voices
    Like many a restless teenager before him, Charles Nordhoff craved excitement and in 1844, when barely 14, he managed to talk his way into the US Navy. A bookish lad who had been apprenticed to a printer, Nordhoff was better educated than most of his fellow seamen, and was well equipped to describe what became a three-year round-the-world adventure. He was lucky in his ship, USS Columbus, a large ... Read more

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