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Loading... Hostile Shores: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures) by Dewey Lambdin (2014-02-11)
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Participating in the 1805 Battle of Cape Town after the death of Admiral Nelson, Captain Lewrie voyages to South America to assist Britain's campaigns on the Spanish colonies only to confront a formidable adversary. No library descriptions found. |
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Something that Julian Stockwin showed us with Kydd around the time that this book was published. I am not sure who came first.
Lambdin does show us the first encounter against the Dutch and that was well done. He then takes us to Buenos Aires, as Stockwin did as well. But then Popham did order his squadron to attack and take that Spanish Possession. We don't get all the shore experience there as Stockwin gave us. We do get finally, a sea battle for about 30 pages, less than a tenth of the book. So that is why we are let down. A series that thrived on combat turns ever more to very little action at sea. And we (SPOILER) see far too much sentimentality attached to an event in the book for several pages that aids in rounding out the humanity of our hero, but should have been handled shorter. We did not pay to see that our brave captain needed ten pages to be brought to tears. ( )