It is 1843 and Captain Nathaniel Sir Drinkwater embarks on the paddle-steamer Vestal for an inspection of lighthouses on the west coast of England. Bowed with age and honors, the old sea officer has been drawn from retirement on half-pay to...
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Tom Fielding rides headlong into trouble when he helps some small ranchers stand up to the big cattlemen who are trying to push them...
The beginning of the present century glorious as it was for British arms abroad was a dark time to those who lived by their daily labor at...
Биографии и мемуары, Путешествия и география
Sunbathing in Siberia: A Marriage of East and West in Post-Soviet Russia
Without aiming to be a survival guide, romance or autobiography, Sunbathing in Siberia manages to be all of them and none. Told completely from the Trans-Siberian and a series of Russian jets, this is the story of a young British poet, who, after...
December, 1801. The Peace of Amiens ends the long war with Napoleon Bonaparte’s France, but Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is appalled by its consequences. What is a dashing and successful frigate captain to do with himself ashore on half-pay?...
Предлагаемая вниманию читателей повесть знаменитого американского писателя Джека Лондона «Джерри-островитянин» – одна из четырех...
Destroyer of...
The Sword of...
Despite his precarious position as a hunted fugitive on the wrong side of the law, Buck Duane puts his life and freedom on the line for a damsel in...