num_pages: 400
description: Legend has it that Patrick O'Brian's editor paid that author's first manuscript what he considered to be high praise he compared it to the works of Dudley Pope. The late Pope's naval histories are renowned for the way they share the riveting, evocative character of his novels. This is true of none more than his masterly The Black Ship, a work of nonfiction that reads like a thriller. In a true story evocative of Mutiny on the Bounty, Pope recounts one of the most brutal episodes in British Naval history, the bloody mutiny aboard H.M.S. Hermione, and the Royal Navy's daring recapture of the same ship.
language: English
title: The Black Ship
titlecomplete: The Black Ship (Heart of Oak Sea Classics Series)
genres: Historical, Nonfiction, Military Fiction, History, Naval History
ratings_count: 167
publisher: Henry Holt and Co.