Midshipman Bolitho: “Richard Bolitho – Midshipman” and “Midshipman Bolitho and the Avenger”
Author: Alexander Kent
Two novels in one volume: the first, Richard Bolitho – Midshipman begins in Portsmouth in October 1772, where young Richard Bolitho is waiting to join the Gorgon; the second, Midshipman Bolitho and the ‘Avenger’, finds Bolitho aboard his brother’s cutter at Falmouth in the winter of 1773…..Read More
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