A Ship For The King

Author:   Richard Woodman
Publisher:   Canongate Books
ISBN:  

9780727880789


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   08 July 2011
Format:   Hardback
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A Ship For The King


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Bristol, 1618. Kit Faulkner is a young vagrant orphan, taking life as he finds it in the rough world of the docks. But after an encounter with two gentlemen, his fortunes are changed forever. Kit is taken aboard the Swallow, a large merchant ship partly owned by the two men, Captain Henry Mainwaring and Captain Gideon Strange, and they decide to train the boy for a life on the sea. And so begins the adventures of Kit Faulkner, which see him rise through the ranks and risk all in encounters with pirates and a French man-of-war. Meanwhile, England edges ever closer to civil war, and very soon Kit must choose which side he will fight for...

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Author:   Richard Woodman
Publisher:   Canongate Books
Imprint:   Severn House Publishers Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 14.10cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.413kg
ISBN:  

9780727880789


ISBN 10:   0727880780
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   08 July 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

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Woodman considered one of the strongest voices in nautical fiction today. He lives in England.

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