Admiral of Fear - Hardcover

Suthren, Victor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312053770 ISBN 13: 9780312053772

Publisher: St. Martins Press, 1991

Synopsis

In 1742, colonial American seafarer Admiral Edward Mainwaring is called on to defend the Royal British Navy against French and Spanish fleets at Toulon Harbor, a difficult test of his strategic acumen and swashbuckling skills

About this title

About the Author:

About the Author: Victor Suthren is a Canadian writer and historian with a special interest in maritime history. A former Director General of the Canadian War Museum, he has written seven adventure novels about the sea, as well as histories including The War of 1812 and biographies of James Cook and de Bougainville.

From Library Journal:

The third in a series of 18th-century Royal Navy sea adventures by the author of Royal Yankee and The Golden Galleon (St. Martin's, 1987, 1988), which continues the saga of colonial American Royal Navy Officer Edward Mainwaring. Excellent technical detail and a sharp eye for the human element provide an interesting setting for Lt. Mainwaring's attack upon the combined fleets of Spain and France harbored behind the fortifications of the French port of Toulon in 1742. Comparable to such sea-fiction masters as C.S. Forester, Alexander Kent, and Richard Woodman in its evocation of the age of wooden ships and iron men and more interesting in its treatment of an earlier period than is usually the case with this genre. Recommended.
- Harold N. Boyer, Mar ple P.L., Broomall, Pa.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martins Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0312053770
• ISBN 13: 9780312053772
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 239