Paul Weston

Weymouth Bound (Paul Weston Historical Maritime and Naval Fiction, #1) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The merchant ship Cicely is captured by the brilliant and ruthless Captain Morlaix of the French Navy. Apprentice Jack Stone's life is changed forever. Can he survive?

Can anyone stop Morlaix and the French striking a damaging blow to the heart of the British Establishment? In the time of the French wars, Jack Stone, son of a Portland smuggler, considers himself fortunate to have been apprenticed to the owner of a sailing ship carrying cargoes along the coasts of Britain and to Europe. His dreams of a peaceful seafaring career are shattered, and he finds himself, alone in France, the only loyal Englishman with the knowledge of a plan which Napoleon himself has conceived. Jack must find within himself the resilience to overcome hunger, loneliness and fear, and to use his resourcefulness and seamanship in the service of his country. Enter the world of Jack Stone, a rapidly changing, dangerous world, but full of opportunity, evoked by the author with an original storyline, tempered by expert knowledge of ships and the sea, and historical accuracy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Paul Weston
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798223188643
• Artikelnr.: 68961156

Autorenporträt

Paul Weston is the author of Weymouth Bound, Not by Sea and Cape Corse. ​His books have lively, credible plots, with accurate historical detail and realistic accounts of ships and the sea. Paul's writing is informed by his career as a merchant seaman, on tankers, offshore, and on ferries, as well as his experience in business and engineering. A prolific inventor, he has several patents to his name. He has been sailing since childhood, initially on his family's converted fishing boat True Vine, and in his teens, crossed the Atlantic in a home designed and built 26 footer, and in his twenties raced to the Azores in another 26 foot boat. In 2021, with his wife Sally, he completed an intermittent four year voyage to the Mediterranean and back by sea, river and canal in Mitch, a 31 foot Mitchell Sea Angler. They have now reverted to sail, and own Kadash, a 42 foot aluminium lift keeler in which they have cruised in the Mediterranean between Elba and Almeria.