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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. In “Seaflower”, Julian Stockwin’s third novel featuring the 19th century nautical adventures of Thomas Kydd, Mr. Stockwin changes course from epic adventure to a series of smaller escapades. Each of these yarns involve placing Kydd within differing -sometimes out of the comfort zone- albeit apropos locations and for a 19th century mariner. Mr. Stockwin does well with the changes of scenery and the descriptions of life in the Caribbean during that time period. However, some of the gleam was lost and this novel does not rate as well as Mr. Stockwin’s previous two. Yet that does not mean this novel wasn’t filled with seafaring action and adventure, it’s just the book felt more like ballast that actual cargo. (  ) BruderBane | Apr 14, 2009 |   no reviews | add a review
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England, 1794. Kydd and the crew of shipwrecked sailors have returned to England for the court-martial of the sole surviving officer of Her Majesty's frigate Artemis. Kydd, who was on duty as quartermaster of the starboard watch, knows what happened the night Artemis went down. His evidence can destroy an officer's career -- and, as it turns out, his own.
When Kydd and his mate Nicholas Renzi are forcibly shipped off to the Caribbean, a whole new set of challenges lies in wait. From the dockyards of Antigua to the shores of Guadeloupe, from warring French and English battleships to a death-defying voyage aboard the plucky naval cutter Seaflower, Kydd's mettle under fire -- as a sailor and a man -- will receive the ultimate test. How he and Renzi survive the primal forces of nature at sea, and among their fellow men, is at the heart of this exhilarating, rewarding journey.
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