โ Scribed by Pope, Dudley
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"Armchair seadogs will welcome this first salvo in a new Horatio Hornblower-styled series about Junior Lieutenant Nicholas Ramage." -- Kirkus Review
"Hornblower has a rival!" -- Horn Book Magazine
"Ramage is a grand tale written with panache, glitter and awesome authority, one can only rejoice that a crying need has been filled." -- New York Times
In a daring foray, under the very nose of the French Mediterranean fleet, Lieutenant Lord Nicholas Ramage is to sail his tiny cutter close in to the Italian shore and rescue a party of stranded aristocrats from Napoleon's fast-advancing army.
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### Review "An author who really knows Nelson's navy." -- _Observer_ "Not even C. S. Forester knows more about the routine and battle procedures of the British Navy in the days of Nelson." -- _The New York Times_ "The first and still favourite rival to Hornblower." -- _Daily Mirror_ ### Product
### Review "The excitement never slackens." (The Sunday Times) "The first and still the favourite to Hornblower." -- *Daily Mirror* ### Product Description The vicious mutineers aboard the British ship Jocasta had surrendered their vessel to Spain. Sailing aboard the frigate Calypso, Captain Lord
### Review Takes over the helm from Hornblower. -- ___Daily Mirror_ ### Product Description Admiralty spies are hunting for British officers and allies trapped on the mainland, among them Ramage's first love, Gianna, the Marchesa di Volterra. Ramage returns to the Tuscan coast, where Bonaparte ho
### Review "Not even Forester knows more about the routine and battle procedures of the British Navy in the days of Nelson." -- *The New York Times* ### Product Description Captain Lord Ramage's honeymoon in France is interrupted by a sudden end to the Peace of Amiens. Finding themselves on unfri
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