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No Pirates Nowadays and Other Stories - Three Nautical Tales (Standard format, CD, Unabridged edition)
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No Pirates Nowadays and Other Stories - Three Nautical Tales (Standard format, CD, Unabridged edition)
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3 previously unpublished short stories by the great Patrick O'Brian
- Noughts and Crosses, Two's Company and No Pirates Nowadays.
Noughts and Crosses: When Sullivan and Ross decide to go shark
fishing among the atolls of the Great Barrier Reef little do they
know what awaits them. With their schooner beached for cleaning
they take a small whaler out to sea, but when the very devil of a
storm turns the whole of the sea white, it drives them to the
nearest atoll for shelter. It is only when they set out once again
that they discover the seas are now filled with sharks, driven to a
bloodlust by the smell of their butchered fellows that clings to
the whaler. Becalmed and surrounded by the world's most fearsome
predators, Sullivan and Ross discover that the hunters have become
the hunted. Two's Company: The lighthouse was one of the most
lonely in the world, guarding a dangerous reef in the cold northern
seas. It therefore seemed a good idea to Sullivan and Ross that
they both be its keepers; after all, two's company. But long months
of isolation and boredom can test even the stoutest of friendships.
So when a great storm deposits the carcass of a huge whale on the
rocks, attracting to it flocks of hungry seabirds and packs of
deadly sharks, and later the arrival of two unexpected guests, it
provides the two friends with a welcome distraction from their
tedium. Yet as the months drag on, they find that there is only so
long that man can live in peace with his fellow. No Pirates
Nowadays: As their schooner inches through the dense yellow fog of
the northern Pacific, Ross is beginning to regret agreeing to
Sullivan's latest plan. Their search for the island of Sakhalien,
to hunt for precious sea-otters, is leading them nowhere. The
appearance of a fellow ship should be cause to lift their mood, yet
the captain and swarthy Malay crew of the Santa Maria leave Ross
feeling all the more uneasy. But when their paths cross once again
it is Sullivan's nephew, Derrick, who has good cause to doubt that
there are no pirates nowadays.
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