Nelson's Navy!Unpublished

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This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are...

Hornblower gets his first independent command in this installment of C. S. Forester's beloved series, "the most popular modern saga of the days when ships were wood and men were iron" (New York Times Book Review). In this gripping tale of...

Based on the stories of swashbuckling action and below-decks intrigue by C. S. Forester. Includes The Duel, The Fire Ships, The Duchess and the Devil, The Wrong War, The Mutiny, Retribution, Loyalty, and Duty. Repackaged.

It's 1786, and Alan Lewrie has his own ship at last: the Alacrity. Small but deadly, the Alacrity prowls the waters of the Caribbean, protecting British merchants from pirates. But Lewrie is still the same old rakehell he always was. Scandal sets tongues wagging in the Bahamas as the young...

It's 1781. Midshipman Alan Lewrie--a scandalous young London rake whose amorous onshore adventures led to his being pressed into His Majesty's Service by his own father--chafes against life in the Royal Navy, but to his amazement he finds himself a born sailor and soon winning respect aboard HMS...

Patrick O\'Brian\'s acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series of historical novels has been described as a masterpiece (David Mamet, New York Times), addictively ...