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Buy this book on-line CORNWELL**, BERNARD: : SHARPE'S TRAFALGAR [21 October,1805]LONDON.HARPER COLLINS,2000. ISBN 0002258749.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.
Bright,crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by David Scutt illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and minimal creasing to top edges - no nicks or tears present - head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges though toned/aged - as usual/normal - are clean, contents bright and clean,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean,publisher's original,dark blue cloth bds with bright, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip with b/w side elevation plan of Third Rate Ship of 74 guns,illustrated eps.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,1-276pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages,a b/w battle plan for Battle of Trafalgar,12 chapters, historical note +2pp blanks to rear.
It is 1805 and Ensign Richard Sharpe, having secured a reputation as a fighting soldier in India,is on his way home to join the newly formed Green Jackets.The voyage should be a period of rest but his ship is riven with treachery and threatened by a formidable French warship,
the Revenant,which is terrorizing British shipping in the Indain Ocean.An old opponent of Sharpe's is aboard his ship, and the voyage is further disturbed by the
Lady Grace Hale,apparently as unreachable as she is beautiful.
Sharpe also has friends,notably a captain
of the Royal Navy who is hunting the Revenant and who rescues Sharpe when all seems lost.The hunt turns into a stern chase as the French warship races home, carrying a treaty that could ignite India into a new war against the British.Yet when the Revenant encounters the combined French and Spanish fleets off Cadiz it seems that Sharpe's enemies have found safety,even as his enemies on board appear
to have him trapped.Yet over the horizon is another fleet,led by Nelson,and Sharpe's revenge will come in a savage climax when the two armadas meet on a calm October day off Cape Trafalgar.
Sharpe's Trafalgar introduces Richard Sharpe to the horrors of a battle at sea, and finds him at his most ruthless as he struggles, not just for revenge,but for a woman he loves.Author's 17th novel/title in the Sharpe series.
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