8 livros parecidos com H. M. S. Surprise
Mestre e Comandante
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…
Temas em comum: Napoleonic wars, Naval History, Ship captains, History
A Grande Sombra
| caption = Title page for The Great Shadow (1892)
Temas em comum: Napoleonic wars, History
Tio Bernac
This is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's dramatic tale of historical fiction set during the Napoleonic wars.
Temas em comum: Napoleonic wars, History
Tomada do Mastro
Raised quarterdeck of an 18th-century frigate, between the main mast and the even higher [[poop deck at the stern.]]
Temas em comum: Naval History, History
Almirante Hornblower nas Índias Ocidentais
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.
Temas em comum: Naval History, History
O Major de Trombeta e Roberto, seu Irmão
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.
Temas em comum: Napoleonic wars, History
O Viajante Desinteressado
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.
Temas em comum: English literature, History
O Dinheiro dos Homens Mortos
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…
Temas em comum: History