Birds Of Prey (The Courtneys)

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Sir Francis picked out the shape of the Buzzard’s ship, black against the darkling sky, and raised the slender brass tube of the telescope to his eye. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps.

High above him the splendour of the stars began to pale and fade, and the firmament was filled with the pearly promise of new day.He led prayers twice a day and exhorted his seamen to gentle and dignified behaviour when they put into port – although Hal knew that this advice was seldom followed.

Seriously, every time Smith (literally) had her thighs getting all slippery when she thought about dudes getting hung or tortured I had to shake my head in bewildered wonderment.His heart tripped as he caught the gleam of a sail, a tall ship square-rigged, only a league to the eastward. Wilbur Smith has the touch, the ability to combine incredibly descriptive language with simple and compelling plots.

His young eyes, the keenest in the ship, had been posted there to catch the first gleam of distant sail in the rose of the new day.This legendary ruler of a vast and powerful Christian empire in the depths of the African continent had existed in the European mythology for hundreds of years. Took me back to amy teenage years of reading when characters did not need to be fleshed out and adventures just keep happening on the seas. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the small country of The Netherlands spread its sails, to become a major world trade player. Under topsails only, and with all else reefed, the two ships were now converging, both running westward towards the Cape of Good Hope and the Atlantic.