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The Arab Slaver: & other Short Stories
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Series: Adventures Galore, Book 21
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ISBN13: 9798373158695
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 9 2023
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 9 2023
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
HMS Castor of the East Indian fleet is slave-cruising on the coasts of Arabia and East Africa. One torrid day in July sub-lieutenant Ned Rollo is enjoying some ship biscuit full of weevils when a suspicious dhow is sighted. A legitimate trader or a slave-dhow transporting its cargo of wretched humanity? A case for the Royal Navy! The British frigate gives chase and the sailors prepare for the worst.
This volume contains eight gripping short stories with numerous illustrations and three articles, along with an author biography, notes on the text and photographs. Arthur Lee Knight (1852 - 7 Jul 1944) was a popular author of adventure books in the late 19th and early 20th century. Around 1868 he joined the Royal Navy at the age of sixteen as a junior midshipman, where he served on the 51-gun screw frigate HMS Forte.
Having been a midshipman in the navy he was familiar with life in the navy and many of the episodes in his novels - such as hunting Arab slave traders - are clearly events he experienced himself and give unique insight into the world and people in the Victorian age. His readable and often racy stories are characterized by authentic navy language of the time and evocative descriptions of seascapes, distant countries and unusual people.
Having been a midshipman in the navy he was familiar with life in the navy and many of the episodes in his novels - such as hunting Arab slave traders - are clearly events he experienced himself and give unique insight into the world and people in the Victorian age. His readable and often racy stories are characterized by authentic navy language of the time and evocative descriptions of seascapes, distant countries and unusual people.
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