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A King's Cutter

In 1792, following the bloody battle of Camperdown, Nathaniel Drinkwater finds himself engaged in a dangerous espionage operation off the French Coast. Reprint. (view table of contents)

By Richard Woodman

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Hardcover:

9781850570691, titled "A King's Cutter" | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, May 1, 1987), cover price $18.95

9780719539466, titled "King's Cutter" | Book Soc of Canada Ltd, June 1, 1982, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: It is 1792 and Nathaniel Drinkwater is back in the Royal Navy, this time appointed to the twelve-gun cutter Kestrel, commanded by the inscrutable Madoc Griffiths.

Paperback:

9781574091243, titled "A King's Cutter" | Sheridan House Inc, February 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In 1792, following the bloody battle of Camperdown, Nathanial Drinkwater finds himself engaged in a dangerous espionage operation off the French Coast.

9780446604628, titled "A King's Cutter" | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, December 1, 1997), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: In a novel based on the real life adventures of Lieutenant Nathaniel Drinkwater, the dashing Royal Navy officer encounters deceit, rebellion, and sabotage on board the Kestrel, a ship slowly careening out of control, in a suspenseful saga detailing life on the rough and stormy sea.

9781850570707, titled "A King's Cutter" | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, May 1, 1987), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Based on the real life career of Royal Navy officer Nathaniel Drinkwater from 1792-1797, this book tells of Lt.

9780523419770, titled "A King's Cutter" | Pinnacle Books, January 1, 1984, cover price $2.50 | also contains A Life Remembered: Memorial Guest Book | About this edition: In 1792, Nathaniel Drinkwater returns to the Royal Navy with an appointment to the twelve-gun cutter KESTREL, commanded by the inscrutable Madoc Griffiths.

An Eye of the Fleet

A new novel of high seas adventure sheds light on the Moonlight Battle of 1780, featuring Nathanial Drinkwater in the captain's chair. Reprint. (view table of contents)

By Richard Woodman

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9781850570677 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, June 1, 1987), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The British sailor, Nathaniel Drinkwater, takes part in the Moonlight Battle of 1870 and risks his life chasing American privateers

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9781574091236 | Reprint edition (Sheridan House Inc, February 1, 2001), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The British sailor, Nathanial Drinkwater, takes part in the Moonlight Battle of 1870 and risks his life chasing American privateers.

9780446604611 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, August 1, 1997), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: The British sailor, Nathaniel Drinkwater, takes part in the Moonlight Battle of 1870 and risks his life chasing American privateers

9780523425450 | Reissue edition (Pinnacle Books, October 1, 1983), cover price $2.95 | also contains Ascension Day | About this edition: Nathaniel Drinkwater's life at sea begins with the HMS CYCLOPS' capture of the SANTA TERESA during Admiral Rodney's dramatic Moonlight Battle of 1780.

A Brig of War

Harrassed by the French and endangered by personal enmity and nature's unpredictable violence, Nathanial Drinkwater escorts a half-armed ship to the Cape of Good Hope. Reprint. (view table of contents)

By Richard Woodman

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9781574091250 | Reprint edition (Sheridan House Inc, February 1, 2001), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: To deliver an urgent message to the British squadron, Nathanial Drinkwater, now a lieutenant, must first face his old enemy, Edouard Santhonay, and then the tyrannical Morris, commander of the Cyclops.

9780446604635 | Grand Central Pub, April 1, 1998, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Based on the real-life career of eighteenth-century Royal Navy officer Nathaniel Drinkwater, the third adventure in the historical saga chronicles the lieutenant's confrontation with an old enemy, who is preparing his French Squadron to descend on India.

9780523419787 | Reprint edition (Pinnacle Books, May 1, 1984), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: To deliver an urgent warning to the British squadron, Nathaniel Drinkwater, now a lieutenant, must first face his old enemy, Edouard Santhonay, and then the tyrannical Morris, commander of the 'Cyclops'

The Bomb Vessel

Product Description: A young captain Nathaniel Drinkwater is given command of an old Ship, the Virago, to be sent to the Baltic as a bomb vessel. Drinkwaterâs ambition is to turn it back into a fighting ship, but his plans are thwarted. At the same time, Drinkwaterâs brother appeals for help in his desperate attempt to escape the gallows...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Richard Woodman

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9780802708861 | Subsequent edition (Walker & Co, February 1, 1986), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: During the Baltic expedition in 1801, Lieutenant Nathaniel Drinkwater, determined to turn the old 'Virago' back into a fighting ship, gets caught up in Sit Hyde Parkers's fleet and must fight to save the ship and his brother

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9781574090994 | Sheridan House Inc, September 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A young captain Nathaniel Drinkwater is given command of an old Ship, the Virago, to be sent to the Baltic as a bomb vessel.

9781850575719 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 1, 1989), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A young captain Nathaniel Drinkwater is given command of an old Ship, the Virago, to be sent to the Baltic as a bomb vessel.

Arctic Treachery

Earl St Vincent, first lord of the admiralty, appoints Captain Drinwater to the Melusine in order to challenge the naval forces of Napoleon in the whaling waters around Greenland

By Richard Woodman

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9780802709486 | Walker & Co, January 1, 1987, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Earl St Vincent, first lord of the admiralty, appoints Captain Drinwater to the Melusine in order to challenge the naval forces of Napoleon in the whaling waters around Greenland

Decision at Trafalgar

In the summer of 1804, aboard the English frigate Antigone, Captain Drinkwater comes face to face with Napoleon's invading fleet at Cape Trafalgar

By Richard Woodman

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9780802709936 | Walker & Co, November 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In the summer of 1804, aboard the English frigate Antigone, Captain Drinkwater comes face to face with Napoleon's invading fleet at Cape Trafalgar

In Distant Waters

Product Description: From the tide-torn waters of the Thames, where Capt. Nathaniel Drinkwater is compelled to hang a deserter, to the seas off Cape Horn, storm-scoured gateway to the Pacific, the great cruiser Patrician is tense with the threat of mutiny...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780312025861 | St Martins Pr, December 1, 1988, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater master of the HMS 'Patrician,' sails his vessel to the Pacific Ocean where, just off the California coast, he battles the Russians, the Spanish, and his own mutinous crew

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9781574090987 | Sheridan House Inc, June 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: From the tide-torn waters of the Thames, where Capt.

In Distant Waters a

Product Description: This eighth Nathaniel Drinkwater book is set in Cape Horn where Captain Drinkwater is to prevent the Russians going north of the Spanish Californian colonies. Richard Woodman also wrote "An Eye of the Fleet", "A King's Cutter", "A Brig of War", "A Bomb Vessel", "1805" and "Baltic Mission"...read more

By Richard Woodman

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9780747402459 | Gardners Books, March 16, 1989, cover price $7.40 | About this edition: This eighth Nathaniel Drinkwater book is set in Cape Horn where Captain Drinkwater is to prevent the Russians going north of the Spanish Californian colonies.

King S Cutter a

By Richard Woodman

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9780722193785 | Gardners Books, February 1, 1990, cover price $5.60

Corvette

The frozen splendor of the Arctic Ocean and the absorbing drama of a nineteenth century whale hunt unfold in The Corvette. Rewarded by promotion for his services at the Battle of Copenhagen, Commander Drinkwater is dispatched in haste to replace the captain of the Melusine, who has been shot in a duel. The ship sails as an escort to a whaling fleet on its annual expedition to the Greenland Sea in pursuit of right whales. During the whale hunt the loss of one of the vessels sets off a chain of misfortune. Disaster, death and treachery result. To repair his ship, Drinkwater seeks shelter off the Greenland coast and finds more hazards than the Arctic alone can produce. It is here that Drinkwater makes the most difficult decision of his career. (view table of contents)

By Richard Woodman

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9781574091007, titled "The Corvette" | Sheridan House Inc, September 1, 2000, cover price $14.95

9781850575733 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 1990), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The frozen splendor of the Arctic Ocean and the absorbing drama of a nineteenth century whale hunt unfold in The Corvette.

Brig of War a

Product Description: This is the third of the chronicles which chart Nathaniel Drinkwater's career in the Royal Navy at the beginning of the 19th century. This story involves a dramatic request from Nelson himself, and an urgent mission to the Red Sea.

By Richard Woodman

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9780722193778 | Gardners Books, October 1, 1990, cover price $5.75 | About this edition: This is the third of the chronicles which chart Nathaniel Drinkwater's career in the Royal Navy at the beginning of the 19th century.

Under False Colours

Product Description: In 1809, working undercover for the Admiralty's Secret Department, Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater goes ashore disguised as a Merchant Marine shipmaster of low character. In London's dockland he encounters a known French agent in a brothel and advertises his plans to carry military cargo to Russia...read more

By Richard Woodman

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9781574090796 | Sheridan House Inc, October 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater works undercover to fool a French spy and drive a wedge between Napoleon and Czar Alexander

9780751500233 | New edition (Gardners Books, October 8, 1992), cover price $10.05 | About this edition: The 10th story in the life of Nathaniel Drinkwater.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781859036488 | Unabridged edition (Ulverscroft Soundings Ltd, September 30, 2003), cover price $71.95 | About this edition: In 1809, working undercover for the Admiralty's Secret Department, Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater goes ashore disguised as a Merchant Marine shipmaster of low character.

Beneath the Aurora

Product Description: The year is 1813. Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater succeeds Lord Dungarth as head of the Royal Navy's Secret Department. While the Grand Army of Napoleon faces defeat on the battlefields of Germany, the discovery of a secret treaty with America leads Drinkwater into the forbidding fjords of Norway, and one of the most desperate missions of his career...read more

By Richard Woodman

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9780751511420 | New edition (Gardners Books, March 7, 1996), cover price $11.80 | About this edition: The 12th in the 'Nathaniel Drinkwater' series.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781859036501 | Unabridged edition (Ulverscroft Soundings Ltd, January 30, 2004), cover price $71.95 | About this edition: The year is 1813.

Waterfront

Set in the early 1900s, this is the story of James Dunbar who goes to sea in search of romantic adventure. In Puerto San Martin, he falls in love with a waterfront prostitute and seeks to rescue her from the Hotel Paradiso. But he is up against the ship's captain who wants the girl for his wife.

By Richard Woodman

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9780751504668 | New edition (Gardners Books, December 5, 1996), cover price $12.35 | About this edition: Set in the early 1900s, this is the story of James Dunbar who goes to sea in search of romantic adventure.

The History of the Ship: The Comprehensive Story of Seafaring from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

This volume presents the reader with a full accunt of the history of ships which in general follows the arguments propounded in Conway's 12-volume 'History of the Ship' series. These are underpinned by the author's years of sea-going experience and numerous writings on maritime topics.

By Richard Woodman

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9781558216815 | Lyons Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the evolution of nautical vessels, explores influential technological, political, and economic developments, and relates the stories of the men who conquered the seas

9780851777214 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, December 30, 1997, cover price $59.10

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9780851779270 | New edition (Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, September 30, 2002), cover price $33.75 | About this edition: This volume presents the reader with a full accunt of the history of ships which in general follows the arguments propounded in Conway's 12-volume 'History of the Ship' series.

The Shadow of the Eagle

Product Description: It is 1814 and Napoleon has abdicated as Emperor of the French. King Louis XVIII is brought out of his English exile and escorted back to France by an Allied squadron commanded by the Duke of Clarence. The 'Great War' is at an end and Europe prepares to celebrate the return of legitimate monarchy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781574091038 | Sheridan House Inc, May 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: It is 1814 and Napoleon has abdicated as Emperor of the French.

9780751520514 | New edition (Gardners Books, March 5, 1998), cover price $9.85 | About this edition: The 13th Nathaniel Drinkwater novel.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780754001089 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, August 1, 1998), cover price $69.95 | About this edition: It is 1814 and Napoleon has abdicated as Emperor of the French.

Captain of the Caryatid

Product Description: Captain Septimus Macready, commander of the lighthouse tender CARYATID, presides over the peaceful Celtic port of Porth Ardur, while for second officer Charlie Farthing, it feels as though he has found the home he's always dreamt of...read more

By Richard Woodman

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9780727852793 | Severn House Pub Ltd, April 1, 1998, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Captain Septimus Macready, commander of the lighthouse tender CARYATID, presides over the peaceful Celtic port of Porth Ardur, while for second officer Charlie Farthing, it feels as though he has found the home he's always dreamt of.

The Victory of Seapower: Winning the Napoleonic War 1806-1814

By Richard Woodman

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9781861760388 | Naval Inst Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $49.95

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9781845600129 | Mercury Books, March 1, 2006, cover price $24.95

The Story of Sail: Illustrated With 1000 Scale Drawings

By Veres Laszlo and Richard Woodman

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9781557508966 | Naval Inst Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $57.50

Endangered Species

Product Description: Captain John Mackinnon and his ship, the Matthew Flinders, are embarking on their last voyage. Both endangered species, they symbolize the irreversible, quiet decline of the British merchant fleet. But this journey to Hong Kong will prove to be anything but quiet...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Richard Woodman

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9781574090765 | Sheridan House Inc, April 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Captain John Mackinnon and his ship, the Matthew Flinders, are embarking on their last voyage.

The Darkening Sea

Product Description: This modern seafaring epic follows the Martin family through nearly 70 years of British maritime history.

By Richard Woodman

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9781461740766 | Ragbk edition (Sheridan House Inc, April 15, 2000), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: This modern seafaring epic follows the Martin family through nearly 70 years of British maritime history.

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9781574090758 | Sheridan House Inc, April 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This modern seafaring epic follows the Martin family through nearly 70 years of British maritime history.

Malta Convoys, 1940-1943

Product Description: From the day Mussolini's Italy declared war on Britain in June 1940, the island of Malta was under siege. Its strategic importance was obvious to both sides, blocking as it did the supply route across the Mediterranean from Italy to the Axis armies in North Africa...read more

By Richard Woodman

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9780719557538 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, May 1, 2000, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: From the day Mussolini's Italy declared war on Britain in June 1940, the island of Malta was under siege.

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9780719564086 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, February 1, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: From the day Mussolini's Italy declared war on Britain in June 1940, the island of Malta was under siege.

Baltic Mission

Product Description: In the seventh tale of the highly acclaimed Drinkwater series, Captain Drinkwater's frigate, HMS ANTIGONE, is ordered to the Baltic Sea in the Spring of 1807 as Napoleon's grip has begun to reach across Europe to the borders of Holy Russia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Richard Woodman

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9781574090970 | Sheridan House Inc, June 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In the seventh tale of the highly acclaimed Drinkwater series, Captain Drinkwater's frigate, HMS ANTIGONE, is ordered to the Baltic Sea in the Spring of 1807 as Napoleon's grip has begun to reach across Europe to the borders of Holy Russia.

1805

Product Description: In the tradition of C.S. Forester, ex-sailor Richard Woodman brings history to life in a rousing tale of daring deeds and clashing cutlasses. it is the summer of 1804 and Napoleon is massing his vast army for the invasion of England...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781574091014 | Sheridan House Inc, August 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In the tradition of C.

Beneath the Aurora: A Nathaniel Drinkwater Novel

Product Description: The Year is 1813. Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater succeeds Lord Dungarth as head of the Royal Navyâs Secret Department. While the Grand Army of Napoleon faces defeat on the battlefields of Germany, the discovery of a secret treaty with America leads Drinkwater into the forbidding fjords of Norway, and one of the most desperate missions of his career...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Richard Woodman

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9781574091021 | Sheridan House Inc, August 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The Year is 1813.

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