A ship for the king
By: Richard Woodman
Publisher: Severn House Pub.; Severn House Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Surrey, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780727880789; 9781847513762; 9780727898326
Subjects: Sailors; Civil War (Great Britain : 1642-1649) fast (OCoLC)fst01352303; Fiction; Seafaring life; History
Description: Kit Faulkner is a young vagrant orphan, but his life changes forever when two gentlemen spot his potential and he is taken aboard their merchant ship, the Swallow, to be trained for a life at sea. As he rises through the ranks, he risks all in encounters with pirates and French corsairs. Meanwhile, England edges ever closer to civil war, and very soon Kit must chose which side he will fight for.