- Fiction, History, Naval, Midshipmen, Naval History
Home from the sea on leave in Cornwall, a 17-year-old midshipman becomes involved with smuggling, murder, and "wrecking."
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Douglas Reeman
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 144
- Publisher
- Ugo Mursia Editore, Arrow Books, Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH & Co. KG / Ullstein Tas
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780099198802
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