La escritura de Richard Woodman está profundamente informada por una vida pasada en el mar, sirviendo en diversas capacidades desde aprendiz hasta capitán. Aporta una experiencia auténtica y vivida a sus narrativas, explorando las realidades y aventuras de la vida marítima con un agudo sentido del detalle. Su prosa capta el espíritu único y los desafíos de quienes navegan por los océanos del mundo, ofreciendo a los lectores una visión vívida y cautivadora de esta existencia especializada.
The Lighthouses of Trinity House - by Richard Woodman and Jane Wilson - is a wonderful celebration of the traditional lighthouses of England and Wales which are all administered by Trinity House. Fascinating personal reminiscences of some of Britain's last lighthouse keepers are included, together with individual portraits of all the Trinity House Lighthouses and light vessels in service today.
A young captain Nathaniel Drinkwater is given command of an old Ship, the Virago, to be sent to the Baltic as a bomb vessel. Drinkwater's ambition is to turn it back into a fighting ship, but his plans are thwarted. At the same time, Drinkwater's brother appeals for help in his desperate attempt to escape the gallows. As Sir Hyde Parker's fleet approaches the Danish coast, the Virago joins the battle. Amid gales and ice, Drinkwater strives to save his ship and his brother. It is 1801 and napoleon is reaching supreme power in France and has allied himself with Tsar Paul of Russia. Against this hazardous backdrop, Drinkwater's actions in the complex and bloody battle of Copenhagen are crucial.
Fact and fiction are combined to produce a fascinating recreation of a bygone world at war.*The second omnibus of a successful adventure series featuring Nathaniel Drinkwater. schovat popis
Set against the backdrop of the 1792 French Revolution, Nathaniel Drinkwater returns to the Royal Navy aboard the cutter Kestrel, under the enigmatic command of Madoc Griffiths. As tensions rise, Drinkwater engages in perilous missions along the French coast, including the rescue of émigrés and covert operations involving agents. The narrative explores themes of duty, bravery, and the complexities of loyalty during a time of upheaval.
It is the summer of 1964 during the Far Eastern war euphemistically called ‘Confrontation.’ A British Royal Marine patrol has orders to penetrate Indonesian Borneo to locate a river thought by Allied intelligence to be in use by the Indonesians to build up supplies before launching a major attack on Sarawak. Charged with this mission, Lieutenant Charles Kirton makes a most extraordinary discovery amid the dense mangrove swamps bordering a river in Borneo. What he finds not only enables Kirton to fulfil his mission, but also turns out to be intensely personal and macabre as the truth behind the strange event is revealed. From this highly charged opening sequence, the story flashes back a century to 1867, when young Henry Kirton, second officer of the auxiliary steamship River Tay, is dumped ashore in Singapore, badly injured by a fall from the rigging of his ship. Woodman’s compelling tale has echoes of Joseph Conrad.
Winning the Napoleonic War 1806-1814
The victory at Trafalgar marked the beginning of nine years of domination by the Royal Navy right across the globe and the policy of defending Britain's ever increasing trade, paid for the war effort and struck back at the dominant military power of France. This volume charts the events of those years, including the gradual take-over of the French Caribbean colonies, the elimination of Dutch power in the East Indies and the successful assault on Copenhagen in 1807. The book is one of a major series which describes the great maritime events of the pre-photographic era from contemporary paintings, prints, drawings, charts and plans, based on the incomparable collections of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich
The frozen splendor of the Arctic Ocean and the absorbing drama of a nineteenth century whale hunt unfold in The Corvette. Rewarded by promotion for his services at the Battle of Copenhagen, Commander Drinkwater is dispatched in haste to replace the captain of the MELUSINE, who has been shot in a duel. The ship sails as an escort to a whaling fleet on its annual expedition to the Greenland Sea in pursuit of right whales. During the whale hunt the loss of one of the vessels sets off a chain of misfortune. Disaster, death and treachery result. To repair his ship, Drinkwater seeks shelter off the Greenland coast and finds more hazards than the Arctic alone can produce. It is here that Drinkwater makes the most difficult decision of his career.
In the tradition of C.S. Forester, ex-sailor Richard Woodman brings history to life in a rousing tale of daring deeds and clashing cutlasses. it is the summer of 1804 and Napoleon is massing his vast army for the invasion of England. His powerful Combined Fleet is preparing to meet Admiral Nelson's British Fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar. In the annals of history this battle completely decimated the Combined Fleet, ranking second in destructiveness only to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater, newly appointed commander of the frigate Antigone, is preparing for battle off the French coast, as part of Admiral Nelson's highly effective blockade. As the fleets draw together, Drinkwater is unprepared for the irregular role destiny deals him when he becomes a prisoner of the French and takes the brunt of the British bombardment in the orlop of an enemy ship.
The 10th story in the life of Nathaniel Drinkwater. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, it takes the eponymous hero from the stews of London's dockland to the island of Heligoland on a daring mission to flout Napoleon's Continental System and drive a wedge between him and his ally the Tsar.
1780: Westward to the Carolinas...For a young midshipman on the Cyclops, 1780 would be a journey into the heart of darkness -- into a war being fought by new rules and a wild new world where a new kind of man, a fighter like Nathaniel Drinkwater himself, could prove his mettle, and leave his past behind.
