8 livres semblables à HMS Surprise
Maître à bord
This is book 1 in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Here is the maiden voyage of O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series, which follows the unique friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. O'Brian renders in riveting detail the life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy: the conversational idiom of…
Thèmes communs : Napoleonic wars, Naval History, Ship captains, History
Pavillons déployés
Hornblower faces charges of violating the laws of war and probable execution by Napoleon's French forces.
Thèmes communs : Napoleonic wars, Naval History, English literature
Oncle Bernac
This is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's dramatic tale of historical fiction set during the Napoleonic wars.
Thèmes communs : Napoleonic wars, History
Le Quarterdeck
Raised quarterdeck of an 18th-century frigate, between the main mast and the even higher [[poop deck at the stern.]]
Thèmes communs : Naval History, History
L'Amiral Hornblower dans les Antilles
As commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, Admiral Hornblower faces pirates, revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane in the chaotic aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars.
Thèmes communs : Naval History, History
Le Trompette-major, et Robert son frère
Set against a backdrop of the Napoleonic wars, this is a novel about a young woman and the three very different suitors who vie for her hand. Two of the men are brothers involved in the fighting, one an easygoing sailor, the other an honest and diffident trumpet major, the third suitor being the cowardly son of the local squire.
Thèmes communs : Napoleonic wars, History
Le Voyageur sans commerce
A collection of seventeen sketches which grew out of Dickens' insomnia. He took long walks through London at night and his observations resulted in these sketches.
Thèmes communs : English literature, History
L'argent des morts
A mysterious one-eyed stranger, a midnight meeting at a lonely spot on the Scottish border, the secret password "Panama", and a corpse This is the situation Hugh Moneylaws, a young law clerk finds himself facing. Who murdered the man he was sent to meet, and why? With the only two men who knew the purpose of the meeting dead, it would seem a puzzle that would never be solved. Yet to save himself…
Thèmes communs : History