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Loading... Passage to Mutiny (1976)by Alexander Kent
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Assigned to transport Raymond and his wife to remote S. Seas island outpost Bolitho confronts hostile natives and a pirate set on making the outpost his headquarters. He must take ship's boats 500 miles for help, then fight pirate. He loses Viola and nearly dies of fever in last battle. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesBolitho (09, 1787)
OCTOBER 1789, NEW SOUTH WALES Into Sydney, capital of Britain's infant colony, sails the frigate Tempest. She is one of His Majesty's ships employed in policing the new southern trade routes. Her captain is Richard Bolitho, who hopes to be ordered home to England. Instead he is despatched on a mission to the islands of the Great South Sea, where he must face hazards of fickle winds, pirates and savage islanders. But he is menaced by deeper fears; the men of the Bounty have mutinied in these same waters; and from distant Europe comes news of a revolution in France... No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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