A sea of gold / Julian Stockwin.
Material type: TextSeries: Stockwin, Julian. Kydd series ; 21.Publication details: �2018 Copyright date: ©2018Publisher: London, England : Hodder & Stoughton, 2018Description: 382 pages : maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- cartographic image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781473641082
- 147364108X
- 9781473641075
- 1473641071
- 1800-1899
- Kydd, Thomas (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Seafaring life -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Treasure troves -- Fiction
- Shipwrecks -- Fiction
- Kydd, Thomas (Fictitious character)
- Seafaring life
- Shipwrecks
- Treasure troves
- Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Great Britain
- 823.92 23
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BOOK | Meaford Public Library Fiction | Fiction | FIC Stock (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 18473 |
1809. After his heroic actions during the retreat to Corunna, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is the toast of London society. Here he falls in with the legendary frigate captain, Lord Thomas Cochrane. So begins a relationship, professional and personal, that will be unlike any that Kydd has known: a relationship that will lead him, almost simultaneously, to first glory, then ruin. The French fleet is massing in the Basque Roads in a near impregnatable position. The Admiralty orders Cochrane to command an attack, to the chagrin of more senior officers who object to being overlooked. Cochrane insists that his new friend, Kydd, is in the forefront of the assault armada, a motley collection of rocket, bomb and fire ships that will set the anchorage ablaze - this despite Kydd's almost pathological fear of fire. The fallout from what follows will see Kydd financially ruined, with only his former shipmates, his oldest friend of all, Nicholas Renzi, and the whisper of hidden Spanish treasure promising the sea of gold that he needs to save himself.
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