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True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
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Avi
It's 1835, and 13-year-old Charlotte Doyle is a well-educated, proper young lady who is traveling from her boarding school in England to join her family in America. Although she is somewhat scandalized to discover that she will be the only female (and, in fact, the only non-crew member) on the ship, Charlotte nonetheless boards the Seahawk and ...
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The Confusion
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Neal Stephenson
The intricately plotted parallel adventures of Eliza, jumped-up countess and spy, and Jack Shaftoe, the so-called Vagabond King, continue in this second volume of THE BAROQUE CYCLE, set in the late 17th-century. Eliza schemes at the court in Versailles while attempting to preserve both her life and that of her child, while Jack escapes from galley ...
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The Confusion: Volume Two of the Baroque Cycle
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Neal Stephenson
In this compelling adventure, Stephenson brings to life a cast of unforgettable characters in the late 1600s on the high seas. It is a time of breathtaking genius and discovery for men and women whose exploits define an age known as Baroque.
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Pitcairn's island
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Charles Bernard Nordhoff, James Norman Hall
The mutineers' tale is told in this conclusion to the "Bounty Trilogy". After fleeing to the island, Fletcher Christian and his men work together to establish what they envisage as the perfect society, but the community is ultimately shattered by human weakness, conflict and jealousy.
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Mutiny on the Bounty
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Charles Bernard Nordhoff
To coincide with the 200th anniversary of the infamous 1788-1789 journey of the HMS Bounty and a major exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, this is a reissue of the story of Fletcher Christian's mutiny against Captain Bligh, as told by Midshipman Roger Byam.
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Ramage's Mutiny: The Lord Ramage Novels, Vol.8
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Dudley Pope
Captain Ramage recklessly attempts to free the Jocasta, a British ship, from the Spanish Main stronghold of Santa Cruz. A vicious mutiny has left the Jocasta open to capture by Spain, but sailing the frigate Calypso, Ramage will stop at nothing to rescue the imprisoned vessel, even to inciting another mutiny on board his own ship.
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Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
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Mike Dash
"Batavia's Graveyard" is a spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, mass murder, and rescue in the 17th century East Indies. A Book Sense 76 pick in hardcover and favorite of critics everywhere, this tale to rival "In the Heart of the Sea" and "Mutiny on the Bounty" is now in paperback.
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Captain Bligh & Mr. Christian: The Men and the Mutiny
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Richard Hough
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The black ship
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Dudley Pope
This work of nonfiction that reads like a thriller, reminiscent of the fiction of Patrick O'Brian, recounts one of the most brutal episodes in British Naval history: the bloody mutiny aboard the H.M.S. "Hermione".
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Trading in Danger
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Elizabeth Moon
The first book of an exciting new military sci fi series that features a swashbuckling spaceship-captain heroine who mixes commerce with combat. "Filled with fast-paced action and well-conceived characters."--"Booklist."
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Fragile Paradise: The Discovery of Fletcher Christian, Bounty Mutineer
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Glynn Christian
The mutiny on Bounty on 28 April 1789 was the revolt of one man against another-Fletcher Christian against William Bligh. On that fateful day two friends became mortal enemies in a mighty clash of wills that rocked a nation. In FRAGILE PARADISE, the great-great-great-great-grandson of the Bounty mutineer brings to life a fascinating and complex ...
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MR Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theater on H. M. Armed Vessel Bounty
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Greg Dening
William Bligh was one of the least physically violent disciplinarians in the British Navy, why, then, did he have a mutiny? Mr Bligh's Bad Language is a study of the mutiny on the Bounty, and its role in society and culture. Greg Dening draws on a wide range of influences, including modern cinematic portrayals.
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Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson - A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic
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Mr. Peter C Mancall
In this title, an acclaimed historian tells the tale of Henry Hudson's doomed final voyage in search of sea passage across the New World on its 400th anniversary. Henry C. Hudson - English mariner, storied explorer, and eponymous navigator of the Hudson River - throughout the final years of his life had a single obsession: The Northwest Passage. ...
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Mutiny : Highland regiments in revolt, 1743-1804
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John Prebble
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Black Odyssey: The Case of the Slave Ship Amistad'
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Mary Cable
The true story of the Spanish slave ship Amistad, which was taken over by mutineers before being captured off the coast of the New England coast in 1839. The legal and diplomatic struggle between Spain, the United States, and Great Britain over the fate of the captured slaves climaxed in one of the most important Supreme Court decisions of the ...
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Mutiny: The True Events That Inspired the Hunt for Red October
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David Hagberg, Boris Gindin
"Mutiny!" reveals the real-life story behind Tom Clancy's "The Hunt for Red October," and offers an eye-opening look at the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War.
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The Fireship: The Richard Delancey Novels Vol.3
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Cyril Northcote Parkinson
The Nore and Spithead mutinies intervene to upset the course of Delancey's career. He devises an original legal defence in the court martial of a fellow officer accused of murder, and acquits himself well, but falls afoul of the naval establishment and is passed over in the general promotion of all in his rank after the victory at Camperdown. ...
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Mister Christian
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William Kinsolving
A reconsideration of the life of Fletcher Christian, lead mutineer of the "Bounty". In this, Fletcher Christian escapes Pitcairn Island, and en route back to England has numerous adventures. Escaping trial for mutiny, Christian travels about the countryside, meeting up with Wordsworth and Coleridge, and is later kidnapped and held in Algiers.
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Bounty Mutiny
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William Bligh
On an April morning in 1789 near the island of Tonga, William Bligh and eighteen surly seamen were expelled from the Bounty and began the greatest open-boat voyage in history, sailing some 4,000 miles to safety in Timor. The mutineers, led by Fletcher Christian, sailed off in the Bounty and were never heard of again. Contains: the full text of ...
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The Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty
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William Bligh
This Graphic Novel Series features classic tales retold with attractive color illustrations. Educatiors using the Dale-Chall vocabulary system adapted each title. Each 70 page, softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics. Introduce literature to reluctant readers and motivate struggling readers. Students build ...
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Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy
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Howard Jones
This book is the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history in which African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home - the mutiny led by Joseph Cinque, a black African, in 1839 aboard the Spanish slave-ship AMISTAD in the Caribbean.
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Black mutiny; the revolt on the schooner Amistad
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William A. Owens
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The Devil Himself: The Munity of 1800
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Dudley Pope
Must naval history be dull? Never in the hands of master storyteller Dudley Pope! Accurate, fair, thorough, and lively, this penetrating account of a mutiny and its aftermath shows why Pope was as widely respected as a historian as he was popular as a novelist. From contemporary British documents and the dusty French naval archives in Brest, Pope ...
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Mutiny
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Mike Resnick
The starship Theodore Roosevelt is fighting on the far outskirts of a galactic war, its crew made up of retreads and raw recruits. A new first officer reports, Wilson Cole, a man with a reputation for exceeding his orders (but getting results). He's been banished to the Teddy R for his actions, but once there, he again ignores his orders.
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Mutiny: A Kydd Sea Adventure
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Julian Stockwin
In the grand tradition of Patrick O'Brian, the fourth installment of Stockwin's internationally bestselling naval adventure series re-creates one of history's most notorious naval insurrections.
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