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Title: The Greater The Honor by William H. White ISBN: 1-888671-44-0 Publisher: Tiller Publishing Pub. Date: 31 March, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good starter.
Comment: This is a fine addition to writing on our infant Navy and it's response to the Barbary Coast pirates of 1803-04. As Age of Sail fiction, it's written more for the newcomer, rather than old salts, and would be a good book to start out with. Very good and very readable. Any writing that takes us back to our early struggles and the extraordinary sailors of that time is very welcome!
Rating: 4
Summary: A Great Read
Comment: I have read all of Mr. White's books and have enjoyed them all. Mr. White has a wonderful way of taking history and making it come alive for his readers. In this his latest novel Mr. White shows us a 14 year old child who enters into naval life and we watch him grow as he and members of his ship face the Tripolitans.
A great read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent sea story!
Comment: White's fourth book is his best effort to date. The novel is a 'coming of age story' about a young sailor named Oliver Baldwin who signs on as a midshipman in the US Navy during the early 1800's. Historically accurate, the novel's main focus surrounds the Barbary Wars where the fledgling country, The United States of America, is defending its merchants from Mediterranean pirates.
Unique to this novel is the way that White introduces young Baldwin to the trials and tribulations of life as a sailor. The various parts and names of 18th century sailing ships can cause the novice to this period shy away from these types of stories. White does an excellent job teaching the reader as Baldwin learns and grows accustomed to life aboard a naval ship.
I frequently found myself fully engrossed in the story, looking over Baldwin's shoulder as he works aboard the ship, makes friends with his fellow shipmates, and fights the pirates of the Mediterranean. The novel is fast paced, and the descriptions are truly magnificent. From the sea spray in your face, to the boom of the guns, to the heat of the battle, White truly puts you in the front row seat for all the action.
When the story ended, I wondered what happened to Baldwin in the rest of his life. I think White sets himself up nicely for a sequel as Baldwin grows older and wiser in the ways of as sailor and an officer in the US Navy.
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Title: The Loyalist's Son by Charles White ISBN: 0972630309 Publisher: Lee Shore Publications Pub. Date: 10 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: A Press Of Canvas (War of 1812 Trilogy, Volume 1) by William H. White, Paul Garnet, Paul Garnett ISBN: 1888671114 Publisher: Tiller Publishing Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Havoc's Sword: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures (Hardcover)) by Dewey Lambdin ISBN: 0312286880 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: A Fine Tops'l Breeze (War of 1812 Trilogy, Volume 2) by William H. White, Paul Garnet, Paul Garnett ISBN: 1888671408 Publisher: Tiller Publishing Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Audacity, Privateer Out of Portsmouth: Continuing the Account of the Life and Times of Geoffrey Frost, Mariner, of Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, As Fa ... lated from the Ming Tsun (Hardscrabble Books) by J. E. Fender ISBN: 1584653167 Publisher: University Press of New England Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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