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The Shores of Tripoli
James L. Haley
其他書名
Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates
出版
Penguin
, 2016-11-01
主題
Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Sea Stories
Fiction / Sagas
ISBN
0698164067
9780698164062
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=PYC0CwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The first novel in award-winning historian James L. Haley’s brilliant adventure series featuring young midshipman Bliven Putnam as he begins his naval service aboard the U.S.S.
Enterprise
.
It is 1801 and President Thomas Jefferson has assembled a deep-water navy to fight the growing threat of piracy, as American civilians are regularly kidnapped by Islamist brigands and held for ransom, enslaved, or killed, all at their captors' whim. The Berber States of North Africa, especially Tripoli, claimed their faith gave them the right to pillage anyone who did not submit to their religion.
Young Bliven Putnam, great-nephew of Revolutionary War hero Israel Putnam, is bound for the Mediterranean and a desperate battle with the pirate ship Tripoli. He later returns under legendary Commodore Edward Preble on the
Constitution
, and marches across the Libyan desert with General Eaton to assault Derna—discovering the lessons he learns about war, and life, are not what he expected.
Rich with historical detail and cracking with high-wire action,
The Shores of Tripoli
brings this amazing period in American history to life with brilliant clarity.