Tenacious
Praise for Quarterdeck
$24.00
"Continuing the rousing adventures of Thomas
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Kydd . . . as he battles ships at sea, snobbery at
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home and the sense that he has serious personal
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shortcomings . . . Stockwin, a career navy man,
rightful place upon the quarterdeck,
writes of the nautical life with vivid authority."
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but the decisions he must make will
—Kirkus Reviews
A Kydd Sea Adventure
test him to the limit!
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"A rousingly exciting and delicious full-immersion
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The sixth book in the Kydd series
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in the perils of seafaring and society during the
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Tenacious
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great Age of Sail!"
—Dewey Lambdin,
part of a small squadron commanded by
author of the Alan Lewrie series
Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson. Its mission Julian Stockwin was sent at the age of fourteen to TS
Indefatigable,
a tough sea-J
is to scour the Mediterranean and locate training school. He joined the British Navy
"Characterized by hazardous battles and enigmatic
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Napoleon and his army. Kydd's newly
fi red ambition leads him to volunteer for at fi fteen, transferred to the Australian
heroism . . . a very highly recommended novel . . ."
shore service with the British army in the Navy when his family emigrated there, and
—The Midwest Book Review
capture of Minorca. Later, he faces the saw active service in Vietnam. He became great ships-of-the-line at the Battle of the a teacher and an educational psychologist.
Nile as the British take on the French in Later he was commissioned into the Royal a no-holds-barred struggle for supremacy Naval Reserve and was awarded the MBE.
Retired from the RNR with the rank of
in southern waters. But there is one more Lieutenant Commander, he now lives in
Devon, England. Visit him on the web at
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test to come: the siege of Acre, where Kydd and a handful of British seamen
www.julianstockwin.com.
under the command of Sir Sidney Smith
face an army of thirteen thousand!
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Cover painting by Geoff Hunt. Cover design by Panda Musgrove.
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Praise for Quarterdeck
$24.00
"Continuing the rousing adventures of Thomas
A
en
Ky
Kydd . . . as he battles ships at sea, snobbery at
d
home and the sense that he has serious personal
d
shortcomings . . . Stockwin, a career navy man,
rightful place upon the quarterdeck,
writes of the nautical life with vivid authority."
S
a
ea Ad
c
but the decisions he must make will
—Kirkus Reviews
A Kydd Sea Adventure
test him to the limit!
ve
n
"A rousingly exciting and delicious full-immersion
t
The sixth book in the Kydd series
u
in the perils of seafaring and society during the
r
fi nds Thomas Kydd aboard
Tenacious
, e
great Age of Sail!"
—Dewey Lambdin,