The Guardship by James Nelson

The Guardship by James Nelson

1701: Thomas Marlowe is the newest and most enigmatic member of the planter class of Colonial Virginia society. Using his store of ready money to buy a house, he and his friend, Francis Bickerstaff, set up as gentleman planters, raising tobacco and enjoying the fine life. Thomas has a hard time settling down. When he kills the favorite son of one of the tidewater's leading families in a duel, the line is drawn. But Marlowe has concerns beyond this feud. The Governor asks him to take command of the guardship, the decrepit Plymouth Prize, and protect the Chesapeake Bay against the threat of piracy.

Jim Nelson was born and raised in Maine and graduated from UCLA with a degree in motion picture/television production. Finding that despite being in Southern California, it was a damp, drizzly November in his soul, Jim took the cure Melville recommended and decided to sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. For six years he worked on board traditional sailing ships before launching a writing career as in 1994. He has since written more than twenty works of maritime fiction and history. He is the winner or the American Library Association/William Young Boyd Award and the Naval Order's Samuel Eliot Morison Award. Nelson has lectured all over the country and appeared on the Discovery Channel, History Channel and BookTV. He currently lives in Harpswell, Maine, with his former shipmate, now wife Lisa and three of their four children.

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ISBN 13	9780380804528
ISBN 10	0380804522
Titel	The Guardship
Autor	James Nelson
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2000-01-05
Seitenanzahl	384
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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