by Richard Woodman · PAMIES · tapa dura · ISBN 9788496952027
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«El vigía de la flota» is the historical novel by Richard Woodman, published by Pàmies in hardcover (272 pages, in Spanish).
In October 1779, fourteen-year-old Nathaniel Drinkwater joins the British Royal Navy as a midshipman. Nathaniel is assigned to the frigate Cyclops, where he undergoes his baptism of fire at Cape Santa María and takes part in missions across the Mediterranean, the Channel Islands and the Carolinas, in the midst of the American Revolutionary War.
First installment of the Nathaniel Drinkwater saga; original title: An Eye of the Fleet (1981). Spanish translation by Marta Cabarcos Traseira.
Recommended for fans of period naval fiction and stories of seafaring from the late eighteenth century.
Captain Richard Martin Woodman LVO MNM was an English merchant navy officer, novelist and naval historian. Woodman served at sea mainly working for Trinity House and retired in 1997 from a 37-year nautical career, to write full-time. He published a series of fictional stories, as well as researching and writing several non-fictional historical books on maritime topics. Woodman published over 70 books, including historical studies, novels and novellas.
