With Bonaparte Napoleon at the height of his powers, the Mediterranean can be safely considered exclusive French territory. So when Captain Ramage and his crew are sent alone into Mediterranean waters, they can expect to be outnumbered. But it is the French who discover they have an enemy they had not bargained for...
Lord Ramage has made his name through numerous brave, daring and extremely perilous sea battles. He has been charged with impossible tasks and has succeeded time after time gaining honour and glory for king and country. He has undertaken his tasks loyally with skill and valour. So it is with some surprise that he finds that perhaps his greatest enemy of all comes from within the British Navy itself. He is forced to undergo a battle that will require his very all.
Das Jahr des Herrn 1863 ist eine d?stere, hoffnungslose Zeit in Deutschland. Das einfache Volk ist verarmt. Wer Arbeit hat, schuftet f?r Groschen. Menschen sterben an Hunger und Epidemien.In dieser Zeit ist »Amerika« ein Wort der Hoffnung und Sehnsucht - ein Land, wo jeder sein Gl?ck machen und zu Wohlstand kommen kann. Ein magisches Wort auch f?r den jungen Handwerksgesellen Jacob Adler, der zu Unrecht des Mordversuchs beschuldigt wird und aus Deutschland fliehen muss.Doch sein Leben in Amerika wird h?rter und gefahrvoller sein, als er es sich in seinen ?rgsten Tr?umen vorzustellen vermag. Ein Abenteuer wartet auf Jacob Adler, wie es kaum ein zweiter je erlebt hat...
Pity poor Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy! He’s been wind-muzzled for weeks in Portsmouth, snugly tucked into a warm shore bed with lovely, and loving, Lydia Stangbourne, a Viscount’s daughter, and beginning to enjoy indulging his idle streak, when Admiralty tears Lewrie away and order him to the Bahamas, into the teeth of ferocious winter storms. It’s enough to make a rakehell such as he weep and kick furniture! At least his new orders allow Lewrie to form a small squadron from what ships he can dredge up at Bermuda and New Providence and hoist his ...
Kas gan nepaz?st b?stamo v?ru, kura v?rds k?dreiz daudziem lika tr?kties un dreb?t bail?s? Elbas upes un Varkalnu apkaim? — Moldavas krastos, pat Pr?sijas pils?t?s ?audis, vakaros gul?t iedami, l?dza:— Dievs, atpest? m?s no ?auna un Lipa Tuliana!Vai tie??m vi?? bija tik ?auns, ?is varonis, par kura apbr?nojamo sp?ku v?l ?o baltu dienu liecina biez?s dzelzs durvis Glashites sakristej?, kuras vi?? saloc?ja k? pl?nu d??u ?uvi?N?, briesm?gs un ...
It is December 1815 and Adam Bolitho's orders are unequivocal. As captain of His Majesty's frigate Unrivalled of forty-six guns, he is required to 'repair in the first instance to Freetown, Sierra Leone, and reasonably assist the senior officer of the patrolling squadron'. But all efforts of the British anti-slavery patrols to curb a flourishing trade in human life are hampered by unsuitable ships, by the indifference of a government more concerned with old enemies made distrustful allies, and by the continuing belligerence of the Dey of Algiers, which threatens to ignite a full-scale war. For Adam, also, there is no peace. Lost in grief and loneliness, his uncle's death still unavenged, he is uncertain of all but his identity as a man of war. The sea is his element, the ship his only home, and a reckless, perhaps doomed attack on an impregnable stronghold his only hope of settling the bitterest of debts.
.After the bloody confrontation in Appaloosa, Everett Hitch heads into the afternoon sun and ends up in Resolution, an Old West town so new the dust has yet to settle. It's the kind of town that doesn't have much in the way of commerce, except for a handful of saloons and some houses of ill repute. Hitch takes a job as lookout at Amos Wolfson's Blackfoot Saloon and quickly establishes his position as protector of the ladies who work the backrooms - as well as a man unafraid to stand up to the enforcer sent down from the ...
In October 1772 Richard Bolitho waits at Portsmouth to join the Gorgon, a seventy-four gun ship of the line. Although only sixteen, Midshipman Bolitho is already a veteran of four years in the King's Navy, and is determined that in this, his second ship, he will not make the mistakes or forget the lessons of his earlier experiences in the hard and demanding ways of the sea. Many of the ship's company are new and untrained, and when the hazards of bad weather, and the relentless hardships which are the daily lot of the common sailor, begin to show themselves, ...
Der ber?hmteste Roman des englischen Schriftstellers Daniel Defoe erz?hlt die Lebensgeschichte eines Mannes, der Schiffbruch erleidet und 28 Jahre auf einer einsamen Insel vor der K?ste Amerikas verbringen muss. Die Geschichte des Romans beginnt, indem sich der Ich-Erz?hler als ein im Jahr 1632 in York geborener Sohn einer urspr?nglich aus Bremen stammenden Familie namens Kreutznaer vorstellt. „Crusoe“, so erf?hrt der Leser, sei dem zufolge nur eine anglikanische Korrumpierung des urspr?nglichen Namens. Robinson begibt sich erstmals 1651, gegen den Willen seiner Eltern, die f?r ihn eine Karriere als Anwalt vorgesehen hatten, auf hohe See, wo ...
Rosy, the elephant bequeathed to young Adrian Rookwhistle by a reprobate relative, turns out to be a handful; not only because of her size but also because of her fondness for strong drink. To Adrian she represents the chance to get away from a city shop and a suburban lodging by exploiting her theatrical talent and experience. To Rosy their progress towards the gayer South Coast resorts offers undreamed-of opportunities for drink and destruction.So the Monkspepper Hunt is driven to delirium and Lady Fenneltree’s stately home reduced to a shambles. In due course the constabulary catches up with the pair, whose ensuing trial is a triumph of the law and of Rosy’s enormous charm. The verdict is—but then the story has to be read to be believed, if then.In spite of all this the author firmly maintains that his first novel is entirely credible, further that it is “an almost true story”!
SAT-OKSS??O KLIN?U ZEMEIZDEVNIEC?BA «LIESMA» R?GA 1967No krievu valodas tulkojusi A. OZOLA-SAKSE V?ku un titulu z?m?jis Z. KAMPARS Ilustr?jis V. ANDREJENKOVS«S??o Klin?u zeme» ir autobiogr?fisks st?sts, ko uzrakst?jis Sat-Oks, indi??u ?evan?zu cilts virsai?a un po?u revolucion?res d?ls.«Sat-Oks» ir indi??u v?rds un noz?m? «Gar? Spalva». So v?rdu mazais indi??u z?ns — uti — ieguvis nikn? sadursm? ar varenu ?rgli.Aizraujo?i un po?tiski Sat-Oks st?sta par savu neparasto b?rn?bu, ko pavad?jis Kan?das m??ame?os, par mednieku cilts dz?vi, tikumiem un para??m, par lieliskiem indi??u jaunek?iem karot?jiem, drosm?giem un v?ri???giem, kas ir lepni uz savu br?v?bu, paz?st skaudros me?a likumus, ir hum?ni nepiecie?amaj? c??? ar varenajiem biezok?u iem?tniekiem. Bet biezoknis — tas ir ?evan?zu cilts m?jas, vi?u t?vu un vect?vu m?jas, vi?u dzimtene.
