The year is 1778, the ship is the 18-gun HMS Sparrow, England's finest sloop of war, and the Captain is Richard Bolitho, sailing his command into the fury of battle. The American Revolution has turned the Atlantic coast into a refuge for privateers and marauding French warships, and it is up to young Bolitho to fight the colonial rebels, to stave off the treachery of a beautiful woman, and to overcome the dangerous incompetence of a senior officer before it is too late.
D?eks LondonsSniega meitaKOPOTI raksti desmit s?jumosSAST?D?JUSI TAMARA Z?L?TE NO ANG?U VALODAS TULKOJU'SAS ROTA EZERI?A UN HELMA LAPI?A M?KSLINIEKS ?DOLFS LIELAIS Tulkojums latvie?u valod?, -«Liesma», 1974
ST?STS PAR KI?UD?eks LondonsKOPOTI RAKSTI-3Tulkojums latvie?u valod?.«Liesma», 1974SAST?D?JUSI TAM?RA Z?L?TENO ANG?U VALODAS TULKOJUSI VALIJA BRUT?NE, ALBERTS DZENITIS, ROTA EZERI?A UN HELMA LAPI?A M?KSLINIEKS ?DOLFS LIELAIS
The year is 1774 and Bolitho is now a newly appointed third lieutenant joining the 28-gun frigate Destiny at Plymouth. It is a far step from midshipman's berth to wardroom – and at a time when most of the fleet is laid up Bolitho is considered fortunate. Bolitho's promotion is tinged by personal sadness, but his new captain soon points out that Bolitho's loyalty is to him, the ship and His Britannic Majesty – in that order. Despatched on a secret mission far south to Rio and then to the Caribbean, Destiny and her company face the hazards of conspiracy, treason and piracy – and, as the little ship sails on, Bolitho has to learn amid broadside battles at sea and the clash of swords in hand-to-hand actions how to accept his new responsibilities as a King's officer.
It was a slender length of rusted steel, tapered to a point at one end and jagged at the other, as if it had broken. A thousand people would step over it and think it trash, but not her. This was the tip of a rapier.Sixteen-year-old Jill has fought in dozens of fencing tournaments, but she has never held a sharpened blade. When she finds a corroded sword piece on a Caribbean beach, she is instantly intrigued and pockets it as her own personal treasure. The broken tip holds secrets, though, and it transports Jill ...
Tim Blackburn, a famous round-the-world yachtsman, must discover the fate of his impulsive, brilliant but wayward daughter, Nicole. Nicole disappeared in the company of Caspar von Rellsteb, an environmental activist and leader of the Genesis Community. He and his followers believe that the planet can only be saved by ruthless force. Blackburn's boat, STORMCHILD, will carry him halfway around the world to the harshest land and the fiercest seas on earth. There, in a tumult of weather and emotion, Blackburn the hunter becomes the hunted as he precipitates a terrifying confrontation with the evil he finds; with men and women whose motives have been eroded by exhaustion and perverted by fanaticism; with the daughter he had once known, and now has to find again.
Dezember 1773: Nach vierzehn strapazi?sen Monaten auf See an Bord der Gorgon kehrt Midshipman Richard Bolitho zur?ck nach England. W?hrend das Linienschiff in Plymouth im Dock zur dringend notwendigen ?berholung liegt, will er Weihnachten bei seinen Eltern in Falmouth verbringen. Doch daraus wird nichts, denn an der K?ste Cornwalls treiben ?belste Strandr?uber, die gezielt Schiffsstrandungen herbeif?hren, ihr Unwesen. F?r Richard Bolitho hei?t es, deren t?dlichem Spuk ein Ende zu setzen…
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 JacobAdler, wie es kaum ein zweiter je erlebt hat...
In the spring of 1802 Richard Bolitho is summoned to the Admiralty in London and given his orders for a difficult and, to him, distasteful task. Even an advanced promotion to vice-admiral to make him one of the youngest ever appointed does not compensate for his sudden and thankless mission. Bolitho and his wife are expecting their first child, and for once he is loath to quit the land for the demands of duty. The Peace of Amiens, signed a few weeks earlier, is already showing signs of strain as the old enemies wrangle over the return of colonial possessions ...
A.KAM?Sve?inieks No visiem m?sdienu rakstniekiem vi?am laikam gan ir visp?rsteidzo??kais liktenis. Glu?i jauns vi?? k?uva nevis par «domu valdnieku» (par ?o izteicienu vi?? sm?j?s), bet gan par veselas paaudzes dz?vo spoguliA.KAM?Sve?inieksNo fran?u valodas tulkoju?as MILDA GRlNFELDE R?GA «ZVAIGZNE» 1989Redakcijas kol??ijaVoldtm?rs B?ls, Nora B?rzi?a, Skaidr?te Bikova, J?nis Brodelis, Aldonis Bullis, Imants Daudi?s, Uldis Norietis, M?r?te Rom?ne, Zigmunds Skuji??, Uldis T?rons, Ina Vaitmane, Guntis Valujevs, Ingr?da V?vernieceM?kslinieks Andris Lamsters
In March of 1814, Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho returns to England from several months' rigorous patrolling off the North American coast. The bitter and inconclusive war with the United States has not yet ended, but news of Napoleon's defeat and abdication has stunned a navy and a nation bled by years of European conflict. Victory has been the impossible dream and now, for Bolitho, a vision of the future and a personal peace seems attainable. He remains, however, an admiral of England, and an unsympathetic Admiralty dispatches him to Malta. Perhaps this appointment is a compliment, perhaps a malicious ploy to keep him from the woman he loves and the freedom for which he craves? He cannot know, but the voice of duty speaks more insistently even than the voice of the heart, and in this familiar sea where both glory and tragedy have touched his life, Bolitho must confront the future, the renaissance of a hated tyrant, and the fulfilment of destiny.
