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Mr Fitton at the Helm

Author : Showell Styles
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571314988
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Mr Fitton at the Helm written by Showell Styles and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, Mr Fitton at the Helm tells of the further exploits of sailor Michael Fitton. When the commander-in-chief of the West Indies Squadron orders a second officer onto the schooner Gipsy, Lieutenant Fitton is far from pleased. Feeling his command threatened by this newcomer Mr Fitton also finds his search for the notorious pirate Van Horn's secret base severely hindered. His new officer quickly becomes a thorn in Mr Fitton's side - not only is he inept but he also falls hopelessly in love with the admiral's beautiful niece, Maud. However, when Van Horn kidnaps Maud, Mr Fitton must lead a dangerous attack on both sea and land, which could provide him with the opportunity of solving more than one of his problems.

Mr Fitton at the Helm

Author : Showell Styles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780754034445
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Mr Fitton at the Helm written by Showell Styles and published by . This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mr Fitton's Commission

Author : Showell Styles
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571310575
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Mr Fitton's Commission written by Showell Styles and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discharged from active duty after the signing of the peace treaty with France in 1801 Michael Fitton is married and eking out a living as a farmer when he is called back into service with the Royal Navy as Britain embarks on war with France once more. Hoping to be sent into active service in the Mediterranean or the Channel - where the possibility of earning his Lieutenant's commission is high - Fitton is disappointed when he is sent instead back to the West Indies where he is placed in command of the schooner Gipsy. However, never one to turn his back on his duty, Fitton embraces life at sea again and soon finds himself back capturing privateer ships and engaging in daring sea battles. Putting all his knowledge, skills and courage to the test Fitton once again proves himself to be a master seaman. Surely, this time, he will finally earn that longed for commission to become Lieutenant Fitton? Mr Fitton's Commission was first published in 1977.

The Mammoth Book of Men O' War

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1780333579
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Men O' War written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen classic sea-faring tales by the best-loved writers of the genre, including Patrick O'Brian, C. S. Forester, Richard Woodman, Herman Melville and Frederick Marryat. Featuring favourite heroes such as Captain Jack Aubrey, Adam Hardy, Horatio Hornblower and Nathaniel Drinkwater. These tales vividly re-create the age of the glory days of sail, aboard the great ships that sailed for trade, discovery or warfare. They include storms and shipwrecks, the great sea battles of the Napoleonic era and the sheer, dangerous excitement of life before the mast.

Mr Fitton's Hurricane

Author : Showell Styles
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571298222
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Mr Fitton's Hurricane written by Showell Styles and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It wasn't the first time that His Majesty's armed schooner Gipsy had encountered a Caribbean hurricane. But for Lieutenant Michael Fitton, who commanded her, this particular hurricane was to bring quite unexpected dangers and problems: an uncharted coral island, a clash with his old enemy the French Gloire, and the surprising advent of Mrs Sarah Buckley. And it seemed to Fitton that these stirring events were put in train by a cockroach - or to be more precise, half a cockroach. First published in 2000 Mr Fitton's Hurricane was the eleventh and last of Showell Styles' sequence of novels about Fitton, a real-life seafaring hero of the Napoleonic age. All eleven are now available in Faber Finds. Frank Showell Styles was born in Four Oaks, Warwickshire, in 1908 and served in the Royal Navy in World War Two before embarking on his successful literary career, during which he published over 160 books. He died in 2005.

The Seaforth Bibliography

Author : Eugene Rasor
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473812399
Total Pages : 951 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book The Seaforth Bibliography written by Eugene Rasor and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-04-17 with total page 951 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable work is a comprehensive historiographical and bibliographical survey of the most important scholarly and printed materials about the naval and maritime history of England and Great Britain from the earliest times to 1815. More than 4,000 popular, standard and official histories, important articles in journals and periodicals, anthologies, conference, symposium and seminar papers, guides, documents and doctoral theses are covered so that the emphasis is the broadest possible. But the work is far, far more than a listing. The works are all evaluated, assessed and analysed and then integrated into an historical narrative that makes the book a hugely useful reference work for student, scholar, and enthusiast alike. It is divided into twenty-one chapters which cover resource centres, significant naval writers, pre-eminent and general histories, the chronological periods from Julius Caesar through the Vikings, Tudors and Stuarts to Nelson and Bligh, major naval personalities, warships, piracy, strategy and tactics, exploration, discovery and navigation, archaeology and even naval fiction. Quite simply, no-one with an interest and enthusiasm for naval history can afford to be without this book at their side.

Lieutenant Fitton

Author : Showell Styles
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571310400
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Lieutenant Fitton written by Showell Styles and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the early 1800s and Michael Fitton, now a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, has command of the 10-gun schooner Gipsy, which he uses to capture the enemy privateers who disrupt the trade between the British held Caribbean islands. Despite his successes the largest and most profitable privateer ship, the Spanish Senora, still remains at large and all Fitton's hopes rest on tracking her down and taking her. Instead, he is obliged by his orders to accompany the new Governor of St Lucia to his appointed island. However, far from being the dull duty that he imagines the journey proves to be more adventurous than Fitton had anticipated. Rescuing the attractive Comtesse de Regmy, the former French Governor of St Lucia's widow, leads Fitton to concoct a hazardous plan as he discovers that St Lucia is in the hands of the Senora pirates. Secretly landing on the island Fitton and his men must execute a night attack to recapture the gun battery above the town, the key to possession of St Lucia, before confronting the Senora in an exhilarating sea chase. First published in 1997 Lieutenant Fitton continues the adventures of Michael Fitton.

Mr Fitton's Prize

Author : Showell Styles
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571310362
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Mr Fitton's Prize written by Showell Styles and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993 Mr Fitton's Prize follows the adventures of sailor Michael Fitton. When Michael Fitton joins the HMS Fortitude as master's mate all he wants is a chance to prove himself a loyal member of the new crew and earn a much-longed for promotion. But Fitton's loyalty to the ship is severely tested when his captain refuses to help struggling French Royalists, including the beautiful and captivating Denise de Charignay, defend their stronghold against the revolutionaries. A chance to command his own expedition leads Fitton into a daring night seizure of a French brig and the opportunity to sail to the Royalists aid. Relying purely on nerve and skill Fitton must battle revolutionaries in order to save Denise and her uncle the Comte, friend of the Comte d'Artois, brother to the executed French King Louis XVI, now a refugee in England and heir presumptive to the French throne. Facing capture and execution as he races across the sea back to the shores of England, where he may face a court-martial for his actions, Fitton must find a way to outwit a larger, faster and better equipped vessel captained by his old nemesis, the French privateer Captain Dorimond.

Richmond Son

Author : Peter R Fitton
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1524561207
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book Richmond Son written by Peter R Fitton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richmond Son is a snapshot of the life and times of a boy during the 1950s. He lives in Richmond, an old and tired suburb on the doorstep of Melbourne. Peter attends St James, North Richmond, a Catholic primary school were the pupils are taught by nuns. Its struggling under the pressures of a burgeoning student population, the effects of the post war immigration boom and the baby boomers. Theres no government funding and few new nuns. A sense of antagonism is swirling just below the surface as Catholics continue to battle under the gaze of an indifferent Protestant majority. But unforeseen changes are about to occur which will ultimately transform this situation. Peters parents were strugglers. Like many of that time, they had been faced by a future without opportunity. First there had been the social, political and educational abyss of the 1930s depression, where adult unemployment reached 30%. Then the war arrived, which led to conscription for my father and factory work for my mother. When wars end finally came, a whole generation would look back upon a fifteen year period that had been laced with fear and despair. By the middle 1950s, our splendid city of Melbourne was on the cusp of great change. The Olympic Games were about to transform it and so was black and white television. Millions of new migrants would complete the transformation. Peter reflects upon how it used to be, seen through the eyes of a boy just eight years old.

A Sword for Mr Fitton

Author : Showell Styles
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571310265
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book A Sword for Mr Fitton written by Showell Styles and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1799 and Michael Fitton joins the crew of the HMS Abergavenny as acting-lieutenant. Volunteering to command the armed launch bought by Abergavenny's crew to cruise the seas searching for prizes, Fitton must set sail with unknown soldiers who haven't seen action in months. With the threat of mutiny and desertion it's imperative that the venture succeeds.However, Fitton and his crew are lucky and before long they are renowned in the Caribbean for their many successes. Capturing a French barque Fitton learns from the captain that a secret plot by the British to attack Dutch held Curaçao is known by the Dutch and Spanish. A counter-attack is planned that will certainly lead to the demise of the British forces. Can Fitton and his crew reach the island in time to stop this from happening?On the brink of finally receiving his commission as a lieutenant Fitton must use all his resources and courage to help the British at Curaçao, find the treasure of the pirate Van Horn and, above all, lead his crew back to the safety of the British held port in Kingston. A Sword for Mr Fitton was first published in 1975.

The Martinique Mission

Author : Showell Styles
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571315011
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Martinique Mission written by Showell Styles and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant Michael Fitton, his captain and the rest of the crew of the armed schooner Gipsy, have been captured by the French. Imprisoned in a French gaol Fitton is left to brood over the disastrous and ill-conceived reconnaissance mission that helped put them there and to worry about whether or not their current state is his fault or that of the arrogant Major Harkness. But help is at hand in the guise of a charming Creole girl who offers Fitton a brief chance of regaining his freedom, but will he be able to avoid the many dangers that lay in wait for him? The Martinique Mission, first published in 1999, was the penultimate adventure featuring Styles' hero Michael Fitton.

Mr Fitton in Command

Author : Showell Styles
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571314996
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Mr Fitton in Command written by Showell Styles and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a disastrous and dangerous encounter with a French frigate Michael Fitton, master's mate, finds himself in charge of the Courier's few survivors. Although not a stranger to danger, Fitton faces further peril as the crew are forced to land on an enemy-occupied island. There is also the added complication of the young wife of the British Envoy to Malta and her lover being among the survivors. With a mutiny imminent will Mr Fitton be able to retain control of the Courier and ensure that she and her passengers all return safely? Mr Fitton in Command was first published in 1995 and is one of a series of fictional novels about Michael Fitton, real-life sailor and hero.

A Ship for Mr Fitton

Author : Showell Styles
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 057131497X
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book A Ship for Mr Fitton written by Showell Styles and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1991, A Ship for Mr Fitton continues the adventures of real-life hero and sailor Michael Fitton. It is 1815 and Britain is at war with France. Mr Fitton, relieved of his command, is finding shore-life difficult. With his wife expecting a baby, he is under pressure to earn more than his half-pay lieutenant's wage. When he is offered the command of a ship embarking on a mysterious expedition to Marseilles he feels compelled to accept. Promising his wife that he will return in time for the birth, he sets off on the voyage. But the enterprise takes him directly into the jaws of the enemy as he finds himself unwittingly aiding them. A desperate sea-chase ensues and Mr Fitton must use all of his resourcefulness and naval expertise if he is to escape the French warship and keep his promise to his wife.

Mr Fitton and the Black Legion

Author : Showell Styles
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571310354
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Mr Fitton and the Black Legion written by Showell Styles and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1994, Mr Fitton and the Black Legion charts the adventures of hero and sailor Michael Fitton. It is February 1797 and 1400 of the French army have landed on the Pembroke coast. Michael Fitton, master's mate in King George's Navy, finds himself involved in this historic event. As he becomes embroiled with Colonel Tate's Black Legion, Mr Fitton faces perilous adventures, including battles on the high seas, secret expeditions across the French borders and an encounter with the attractive Comtesse de Callac.

Of Sex and Faerie: further essays on Genre Fiction

Author : John Lennard
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1847601731
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Of Sex and Faerie: further essays on Genre Fiction written by John Lennard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking up where Of Modern Dragons (2007) left off, these essays continue Lennard's investigation of the praxis of serial reading and the best genre fiction of recent decades, including work by Bill James, Walter Mosley, Lois Mcmaster Bujold, and Ursula K. Le Guin. There are groundbreaking studies of contemporary paranormal romance, and of Hornblower's transition to space, while the final essay deals with the phenomenon and explosive growth of fanfiction, and with the increasingly empowered status of the reader in a digital world. There is an extensive bibliography of genre and critical work, with eight illustrations. John Lennard is Director of Studies at Hughes Hall, Cambridge and has also taught for the Universities of London, Notre Dame, and for the Open University, and was Professor of British & American Literature at the University of the West Indies-Mona, 2004-09. Of Modern Dragons and other essays on genre fiction (2007), is also available from Lulu.

Nelson's Navy in Fiction and Film

Author : Sue Parrill
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786458038
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Nelson's Navy in Fiction and Film written by Sue Parrill and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides summaries and analyses of more than 250 novels and nearly 30 films and examines the extent to which they accurately reflect the history, mores and manners of the period--and the extent to which they reveal the ideas and attitudes of their authors and of the periods in which they were written. Particular emphasis is placed on the nature and importance of the war at sea for the British and on the role of famous naval officers such as Nelson, Pellew, Duncan, Smith and Cochrane in the defeat of Napoleon.

Musical Standard

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Musical Standard written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: