Mister Tidwell, gunner / L. Ron Hubbard.
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TextPublisher: [Sydney?] : Read How You Want, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Large print editionDescription: lxvi, 107 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781459684072Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815. -- Naval operations -- Fiction | Naval battles -- FictionGenre/Form: Short stories. | Historical fiction. | Adventure fiction. | Large type books. DDC classification: 813.912 Summary: Imagine a young Laurence Olivier cast as a scholarly Oxford professor - an academic snatched out of his bookish world and pressed into service aboard Lord Nelson's legendary British fleet - in the position of schoolmaster. Such is the life of the land - loving, seafaring Mister Tidwell, Gunner. Thrust into service at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, Tidwell soon finds himself directly in the line of fire and way out of his depth. Fate has cast him into a terrible and terrifying spot - alone on deck to face the fearsome approach of a French man - o' - war. The professor is about to get an object lesson in war, self - reliance . . . and survival. Overwhelmed by the smell of gunpowder, the sound of cannons, and the sight of death, he will either experience the sweet taste of victory . . . or the bitter taste of his own blood.
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Originally published: Hollywood, CA : Galaxy Press, [2014].
Imagine a young Laurence Olivier cast as a scholarly Oxford professor - an academic snatched out of his bookish world and pressed into service aboard Lord Nelson's legendary British fleet - in the position of schoolmaster. Such is the life of the land - loving, seafaring Mister Tidwell, Gunner. Thrust into service at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, Tidwell soon finds himself directly in the line of fire and way out of his depth. Fate has cast him into a terrible and terrifying spot - alone on deck to face the fearsome approach of a French man - o' - war. The professor is about to get an object lesson in war, self - reliance . . . and survival. Overwhelmed by the smell of gunpowder, the sound of cannons, and the sight of death, he will either experience the sweet taste of victory . . . or the bitter taste of his own blood.
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