Ramage's Prize
Published on 1. October 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
350 pages
978-0-935526-80-6 (ISBN)
Description
The West Indian bases are desperate: post vessels-a vital communications link between England and the West Indies in the war against France-are mysteriously disappearing and no packets have arrived with orders in months. Were the privateers out in full force again? Had Napoleon's navy a secret new weapon? Lieutenant Lord Nicholas Ramage sets out from Jamaica to discover what treachery is threatening to throw the British navy into chaos.
Reviews / Votes
"The first and still favourite rival to Hornblower." -- Daily Mirror "An author who really knows Nelson's navy." -- ObserverMore details
Series
Edition
Reissue edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Globe Pequot Press
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
497 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-935526-80-6 (9780935526806)
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Person
Dudley Pope, a naval defense correspondent of the London Evening News, progressed to writing carefully researched naval history. C.S. Forester urged Pope to try his hand at fiction and saw the younger writer as his literary heir. Pope began what was to become an impressive series with Ramage (1965) and, over the next 24 years, produced 17 more novels tracing Lord Ramage's career. Pope died in 1997.