High Seas
Subtitle: Stories of Battle and Adventure From the Age of the Sail (Adrenaline
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Published: October 25, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781560254348
Subjects: Historical fiction; History, Naval; English Historical Fiction; Fiction - Historical; Short Stories (Anthologies); History: World; Sea stories, English; Historical - General; Sea Stories; Travel / Adventure; Fiction; Great Britain; Historical fiction, English
First sentence: For the ten thousandth time Jack woke to the sound of holystones on deck: the Surprise might be going into action later in the day, but she was certainly going into it titivated to the nines, and the first lieutenant could be heard calling with unusual insistence for the removal of three spots of tar.