Title: Command (SIGNED)
Description: Kydd sails in his first command--the brig-sloop Teazer--to defend Malta against Barbary pirates. Soon peace is declared and Kydd is out of work. To make ends meet, he captains a convict ship to Australia. There, at the ends of the earth, his seamanship and humanity are tested to the limit.
Subjects: Great britain, fiction, Australia, fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Thomas Kydd (Fictitious character), Fiction, Seafaring life, History, Naval History, Convict ships, Transportation of Prisoners, Penal colonies, Penal transportation