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23 hours ago ago from Seeing the World Through Books | Reviews by Mary Whipple

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NY: Scribner, 2003. This is the third novel about the maritime adventures of Thomas Paine Kydd, only a couple of years before a young wigmaker in Guildford, pressed into the Royal Navy, and now, in 1794, not only a prime, intuitive seaman but a quartermaster’s mate and at the end of this volume he’s on the brink of receiving his step in the form of an Admiralty warrant as master’s mate. The story begins exactly where the previous one ...

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9 hours ago ago from Glorified Love Letters

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