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Success to the brave

2000
In 1802, the British Admiralty assigns to Richard Bolitho the distasteful task of sailing via Boston to the Caribbean to hand over the island of San Felipe to the French.

The Bounty trilogy

comprising the three volumes, Mutiny on the Bounty, Men against the sea & Pitcairn's island
1985
Fictionalized account in three parts of the Mutiny on the Bounty and the lives of Captain Bligh and mutineer Fletcher Christian following the revolt.

Pirates and privateers of the Americas

1994
From Acosta, Gaspar de (fl. 1683-1686) to Zoby, Joseph (fl. 1678-1683) includes articles on individual pirates, geographical terms, and other related topics.

Sir Francis Drake

circumnavigator of the globe and privateer for Queen Elizabeth
2003
A biography of British pirate and explorer Sir Francis Drake, featuring his search for riches in the Americas and his eventual voyage around the world.

Victory

2007
Molly, upset by her family's move from London to the U.S., is strangely drawn to an old book about the life of Admiral Lord Nelson, and soon finds her life intertwined with that of Sam, a boy her age who served with Nelson aboard the HMS "Victory" a century earlier.

Empire of ivory

2007
Temeraire the dragon and his captain, Will Laurence, fly to Africa to search for a cure to the epidemic plaguing England's dragon ranks and hold off conquest by Napoleon Bonaparte.

Mutiny

a novel of the Bounty
2009
When fourteen-year-old pickpocket John Jacob Turnstile is offered a life at sea as a captain's personal valet instead of prison, he embarks on a voyage to Tahiti aboard the "Bounty, " and when the crew falls in love with the island woman, they stage a mutiny.

His majesty's dragon

2006
After capturing a French frigate and seizing its precious cargo, Captain Will Laurence of the HMS "Reliant" befriends the dragon Temeraire and uses his new friend to help defend his country from other airborne dragon forces.

Hawke

a novel
2003
Worldly and debonair, Alex Hawke has pushed himself to excellence -- in seamanship, international business, and free-lance espionage. On a mission to stop a rogue sub with 40 nukes aimed at the United States, he finds a link to his own tragic past.

Commodore Hornblower

1945
Horatio Hornblower returns to sea with the rank of Commodore in command of a small squadron during the Napoleonic wars. The fate of Europe hangs on the outcome of his mission.

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