num_pages: 240
description: The year is 1772, and Richard Bolitho is a sixteen-year-old midshipman about to undergo a severe initiation into the game of seamanship. The book follows young Bolitho's adventures as he intercepts and destroys a band of vicious pirates and then is swept away on a dangerous mission through the treacherous stamping ground of smugglers, wreckers, and murderers.
language: English
title: Midshipman Bolitho
titlecomplete: Midshipman Bolitho (Richard Bolitho, #1-2)
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, Adventure, Naval Historical Fiction, Historical Fiction, Maritime, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 1994
places: Cornwall, England, United Kingdom
series: Richard Bolitho
publisher: McBooks Press