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October 1789, and war clouds thunder over Europe when Richard Bolitho steers the Tempest into the perilous waters of the Great South Sea. To protect vulnerable English shipping lanes from her seagoing enemies, he must face the hazards of fickle winds, pirates, and savage islanders.Tags
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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.
This is one of the two best this far into the series. I enjoyed the slightly darker tone.
Perhaps the most moving of all the Richard Bolitho books I've read.
Octubre de 1789. Nubes de guerra se ciernen sobre Europa mientras Richard Bolitho dirige la Tempest por las peligrosas aguas de los Mares del Sur. Su misión es proteger las débiles rutas de navegación inglesas de sus numerosos enemigos. Tiene que enfrentarse a los peligros de vientos contrarios, piratas e indÃgenas salvajes. Pero además le acechan otras amenazas. Los hombres de la Bounty se han amotinado en estas mismas aguas y desde la lejana Francia llegan noticias de una revolución.
Nov 4, 2022Spanish
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...
Jan 6, 2010 (Edited)Dutch
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- Canonical title
- Passage to Mutiny
- Original publication date
- 1976
- People/Characters
- Richard Bolitho (captain); Thomas Herrick (lieutenant); John Allday (coxswain); Viola Raymond; James Raymond; James Sayer (commodore) (show all 29); Thomas Gwyther (surgeon); Valentine Keen (lieutenant); Jasper Prideaux (marine captain); Benjamin Bynoe (purser); Jacob Twig (cook); Tobias Lakey (master); Jack Brass (gunner); Evelyn Romney (midshipman); James Lloyd (captain); Mathias Tuke (pirate captain); George Quare (marine sergeant); Tom Blissett (marine); John Hardacre (governor of Levu); Jean Michel, Comte de Barras (french captain); Tinah; William Tremayne; Yves Genin; Jack Miller; Tom Fraser; Orlando; Nancy Bolitho; Grace Ferguson; Byron Ferguson
- Important places
- Australia; Bombay, India; India; Madras, India; New Delhi, India; New South Wales, Australia (show all 7); Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Important events
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1789); French Revolution (1789 | 1799)
- Epigraph
- Where lies the land to which he ship would go?
Far, far ahead, is all her seaman know.
And where lies the land she travels from? Away
Far, far behind, is all that they can say.
Arthur Hugh Clough - Dedication
- For Winfred with love
- First words
- It was almost noon, and the sun which blazed across Sydney harbour was pitiless in its intensity.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The battle was won.
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