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Der Piratenfürst. Fregattenkapitän Bolitho In Der Java See (Richard Bolitho #8)
Spithead, 1784. His Majesty's Frigate, Undine, sets sail for India and the seas beyond. Europe may be at peace—but in colonial waters the promises of statesmen count for little and the bloody struggle for supremacy still goes on.
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Feb 15, 2016
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I discovered this book quite by accident while I was walking through the library looking for something else. I noticed a display on naval stories and picked this one up. It looked quite good and so I checked it out. I read the entire thing in two days. I decided to look online to see if the author had any other books and that is when I discovered that this was a part of a very long series about the main character and this book was number 8 in the series. I immediately reserved the first book fro
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March, 1784 and the American Revolution has been over for a year. Richard Bolitho has spent that year ashore at his home in Falmouth trying to obtain a peace time naval command along with hundreds of other officers. He is given command of the frigate UNDINE and a secret mission to travel to the East Indies in cooperation with former enemy Spain to relieve a Spanish garrison at a former Sumatra Dutch outpost and establish an English base there. The peace time mission is complicated by the French
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I was expecting more from the author after all the good things I heard over the years. Dragged in places and spent too much time with the main charter agonizing over how the crew responded to his command. After he made the point a couple of times, we, the readers, should know it was always in his mind. Many matters were dealt with shallowly.
This one opens the new cycle in the Bolitho's adventures. We find Richard without a ship in a time of peace right after the end of the Revolutionary war. Kent is very good with describing the situation the sailors and soldiers find themselves in. Poverty, rejection, most of them hurt beyond reason physically and mentally. Bolitho is given the command of the Undine to sail to the Pacific and help establish a commercial port in Borneo. Bolitho must sail thru new waters and thru political intrigues
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Not as good as the O'Brian Aubrey and Maturin series, but it'll do. You still get the sense of the god like powers of the navy captain, but it' sty little people that have the characters. We are told of seamen with ragged scars, small portraits of life before the pressgang, foibles of midshipmen...but the captain is aloof. The book needs a map so that the voyage can be visualised: it's only the last 50 or so pages when the writing comes alive. Up to that point the writing is quite ponderous, wit
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A novel depicting British Navy in the late 1700's which I thoroughly enjoyed. This story captured and kept my attention throughout.
I am a naval-holic, as I prefer to think. Alexander Kent had done a great job and this seems to be a great series for me. Bolitho is now my new marine hero!
I am only partially through the Bolitho series and this is the best one yet. The story telling is superb and vivid (I kept picturing the smoke of a broadside and the bellowing sails of a ship at sea.) The plot is more advanced then some of the previous Bolitho novels since the Undine's mission is just as much of politics and espionage, as it is naval battles and hand-to-hand combat. The characters are well developed and Kent does a good job at showing Bolitho's occasional irritation but also adm
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well done!
I can recommend this to people who love adventure tales set in the days of iron men and wooden ships. I think the Patrick O'Brian tales (Master and Commander etc.) were the best of the breed, but the Alexander Kent novels are page turners, and the nautical settings and descriptions seem accurate enough, with occasional lapses. In these tales, the hero may have set-backs but wins, so the outcome is rarely in doubt. I like books about the sea, but this will not be everyone's cup of tea.
Sehr sehr guter maritimer Roman. Das Niveau dieses Romans erreicht fast die Hornblower-Reihe.
The 8th? novel in the Bolitho series finds him in an independent command, aboard a frigate in the area near modern Indonesia. Very typical of the series to date - I liked it; these books make a nice break from the non-fiction and fluff reading I typically do. More importantly, they make an excellent diversion from my thesis.
Si bien la trama de esta novela tiene desarrollos interesantes y situaciones atractivas, me da la sensación de que los desenlaces son un poco repetitivos y la novela avanza apresuradamente, en ocasiones. Estoy empezando a pensar que las traducciones no son muy buenas, es una sensación solamente.
This book seemed to be more of an attempt to deal with political intrique, and while the author does a good job of continually moving the story, there are certainly points when I really just want to get through a particular section and move along. Overall however, still a very good series.
After reading eight books in this series and with some 20 more to go, I imagine that I will run out of things to say about these, except that I really like them. Bolitho is a great character and Mr. Kent writes a wonderful naval story.
This is the third audiobook I've listened to in this series and I've "read" them completely out of sequence. This was the best of the three and I liked it a lot.
I am totally sold on this series and can't believe how many more adventures lay ahead in future episodes that I can enjoy.
Reading these books in order. This one is one of the btter oones.
Approaching 4 stars, certainly better than the midshipman titles.
Sep 17, 2013
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Bolitho does get around.
Very enjoyable, lots of action
Very enjoyable, lots of action
series continues to b great!
Another solid tale of Naval Action.
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A pseudonym used by Douglas Reeman.
Series:
* Richard Bolitho
* Adam Bolitho
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