- Title:
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Heart of Oak
- Series:
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Richard Bolitho #29
- Written by:
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Alexander Kent
- Read by:
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Michael Jayston
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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9
- Duration:
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9 hours 19 minutes
- Published:
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February 01 2021
- Available Date:
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February 01 2021
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781867513568
- Genres:
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Fiction; British Fiction; General Fiction; Historical Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Price
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'As you would expect, Kent is a dab hand at plotting and at action scenes, and this novel is another accomplished performance from the old man of the sea.'
The First Post
Heart of Oak is the new Bolitho instalment from the greatest living naval writer, Alexander Kent.
It is February 1818, and Adam Bolitho longs for marriage and a safe personal harbour. But with so much of Britain's fleet redundant, he knows he is fortunate to be offered HMS Onward, a new 38-gun frigate whose first mission is not war but diplomacy, as consort to the French frigate Nautilus.
Under the burning sun of North Africa, Bolitho is keenly aware of the envy and ambition among his officers, the troubled, restless spirits of his midshipmen and the old enemy's proximity. It is only when Nautilus becomes a sacrificial offering on the altar of empire that every man discovers the brotherhood of the sea is more powerful than the bitter memories of an ocean of blood and decades of war.
'One of our foremost writers of naval fiction.'
The Sunday Times