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Passage to Mutiny [Large Print] (Paperback)

by Alexander Kent (Author)
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These are the four most recent titles in Kent's ongoing adventures of 18th-century fighting British sailor Richard Bolitho. Good fun for fans of nautical fiction.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.


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‘One of our foremost writers of naval fiction’ --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Adventures of the Tempest, 36-gun frigate, Dec 28 2003
By Joseph H Pierre "Joe Pierre" (Salem, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Passage to Mutiny: The Richard Bolitho Novels Vol.7 (Paperback)
Richard Bolitho's new command is the Tempest, a 36-gun frigate, built in India of teak. a fifth class like his last command. But teak is a very heavy, dense wood; much heavier than the English oak usually used in the construction of ships of the Royal Navy, and therefor less maneuverable--but exceptionally strong.

The Tempest is picked up in the story entering the harbor at Sydney, the main port of the prison colony of Botany Bay (now known as Australia.)

The Commodore to whom he reports is an old friend with whom he served when they were both lieutenants. But another old acquaintance was also arriving soon from England: the government advisor, James Raymond and his wife Viola, with whom Bolitho had fallen in love on the last occasion of their company, five years previously.

The story continues through attacks by the pirate Mathias Tuke, broadsides, shore parties, a long sea episode in an open boat, hostile savages, and the loss of many good friends and crew members in battler and from fever, and the near loss of Bolito's own life.

This is a fine novel, as is typical of Alexander Kent, and the seventh in the Bolitho series. I have ordered the next three in the series, so taken by the stories am I.

Joseph (Joe) Pierre, USN(Ret)

author of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance
and other books

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4.0 out of 5 stars South Seas plunder, Jan 13 2002
By tertius3 (MI United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Passage to Mutiny: The Richard Bolitho Novels Vol.7 (Paperback)
A sequel to Command a King's Ship, Bolitho sails his Tempest farther east into the contested fringes of the British, Spanish and French empires. Capt. Bolitho is among the the islands in the Great South Sea, which is not so Pacific as it echoes to thunderous broadsides and murderous intrigue. Mutiny is in the air again. The state-sponsored (merchantile) economy of peacetime England is rotten, royalist France is in turmoil before its revolution, and the amazing Bligh has survived the mutiny on the Bounty. We see Polynesia in a more exciting time, when traders and free booters were only just entering islands of lovely but deadly natives amid the clash of unsettled national interests and claims. Bolitho has finally met his match in the form of an utterly ruthless and clever pirate who outwits Bolitho time and again, despite the desperate courage of his lieutenants. Kent has again come up with a wonderfully evil pirate to fight, even though we hardly meet him. Is Bolitho too besotted with his love for Viola, who has returned with her husband to develop an island colony? Unfortunately Kent makes Viola's husband so wholly irredeemable there's no tension there. Into this comes a French frigate under a tyrannical captain just as news of the outbreak of the French Revolution roils the tense waters and dubious loyalties further. The effects of tropical heat are graphically displayed, and the implacable scourge of fever finally makes its appearance in the series.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Mr Kent does it again, another wonderful Bolitho story, Dec 3 2001
By Ironmike (California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Passage to Mutiny: The Richard Bolitho Novels Vol.7 (Paperback)
Mr Kent proves once more that he is a master story teller. This book is alive with characters who face a series of dangerous adventures in the service of their king. The story has everything: brigands, upturned cannon, splintered decks, heroic struggle against the odds, friendship, romance, some terrific dialog and character developement, hostile islanders, Royal Marines, some rather bloody battles and above it, Richard Bolitho stands true to his calling. The plot and sub plots are splendidly told and fill the pages with attention to detail, a rich feel for the time period and Allday backing his captain with his broad back and gleaming cutlass.
Great stuff to read on a rainy afternoon by a crackling fire.
What is great about the Kent books is the fact that as in real life, people arrive, influence, some move on and others die. Told with flair and a bold descriptive style makes Kent's books some of my very favorite.
Enjoy
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5.0 out of 5 stars the best book in the series
Passage to Mutiny was my first Bolitho adventure. I have read them all, but nothing captured my imagination quite as much as this one. Read more
Published on Feb 26 2001 by shawnamills

5.0 out of 5 stars 5 Pacific Paradises Plundered
Passage to Mutiny is the fourth Kent novel set outside of an actual war and the fourth that deals with pirates. Read more
Published on Oct 24 2000 by Bill Mac

5.0 out of 5 stars An Unusual Setting and Theme for a Classic Naval Yarn!
This highly enjoyable novel features perhaps the most unusual setting and theme of any of the classic naval adventures by Kent, Forrester or O'Brien. Read more
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