Julian Stockwin

Kydd, first published in 2001, is a historical novel by Julian Stockwin. This first instalment in Julian Stockwin's series of novels set during the Age of Fighting Sail tells the story of young Kydd, who is pressed into service on a British ship in 1793. The book is unusual in that the hero is an ordinary pressed man, …

Thomas Kydd wähnt sich am Ziel seiner Träume. Er erhält sein erstes Kommando über den kleinen, alten Rahsegler Teazer, der zur Verteidigung Maltas gegen die Franzosen und die arabischen Korsaren eingesetzt wird. Doch nach wenigen Seescharmützeln verzieht

Internationally bestselling author Julian Stockwin's seafaring hero, young Thomas Kydd, comes of age in this epic naval adventure set in the Great Age of Sail. Writing in the sweeping tradition of Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester, acclaimed author Julian Stockwin continues the saga of Seaman Thomas Paine Kydd as he …