Midshipman Bolotho Aven

by Alexander Kent

Book Overview

Home from the sea on leave in Cornwall, a 17-year-old midshipman becomes involved with smuggling, murder, and "wrecking." This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099198800
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Random House UK
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A good book

This is the second book in Alexander Kent's Richard Bolitho's series. Our hero, Richard, is assigned to his brother's small craft to ferret out and destroy some smugglers/pirates on the southwest English shore. The story was fine, but what really draws me to this series is that there is lots of action. Something is always going on. Kent doesn't bore us with trivial details and long explanations. This is a good book and a worthy read.

A book to drag you into a series you can't put down.

Alexander Kent goes back to the start of the career of Richard Bolitho, and with his usual exciting, detailed style rushes you forward into the career of a British naval officer during the American Revolution and the Napolionic wars. Exciting, humanistic and very informative about the British navy and the ships the men served.