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The Man From Bere (The Call of the Sea Book 1)
£4.30
Nick Turnhouse is a Dorset farmhand, a third son with nothing to inherit and no future, working his father’s land for his keep. He is also tall, powerfully built, and handsome, and crosses the path of Squire’s impressionable daughter.
Nick has to run, fast, with ten shillings and his father’s blessing. Luckily, or so he thinks, he comes across a kind gentleman who can help him. After Nick is persuaded to say that he is looking for work, he discovers the man is recruiting for the Navy, and Nick has just ‘volunteered in fact’.
Once at sea, he is amazed to discover that he is not stupid – he has simply had no occasion to use his brain plodding on the farm. He can learn and fight, and wishes to do both, finding his chance to rise in the nautical world.
The Man From Bere is the first of Nick’s adventures on sea and occasionally on land.
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Additional information
| Publisher | PublishNation (11 July 2021) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| File size | 2476 KB |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
by Dusty Miller
An excellent read from the pen of Andrew Wareham with the all the potential of a really good series. It seems the Man from Bere will be making his way in the Navy, bringing death and damage to French! I’m more than looking forward to reading the next book ????
by A. Martin
A farmer’s surplus son is sent away to find work and finds a calling. ‘Recruited’ as a volunteer into the Navy at the start of war with Revolutionary France, he finds he has the brains, brawn and ambition to rise in a world in flux. Lots of interesting information.
by ANDY FRENCH
Loved the fact it starts in Dorset countryside and ends up in far off Islands, shows you can go anywhere and achieve anything, even if only fictional!
by Kindle Customer
Enjoyable tale , Nick Turnhouse is a man ambitious to make something of himself , no easy thing when you are born on a farm with a handful of siblings , through luck he “volunteers” for the navy just at the start of the Napoleonic wars and is fortunate enough to have superiors who value and reward hard work , the Caribbean where he is sent is a place of wealth and opportunity and Nick and his captain Woodman are determined to take advantage of the opportunity. The only negative is the lack.of proof reading , some of the grammar and spelling is a challenge.
by Dr Robert Freeman
This was an interesting book to read. Fastest promotion possible for someone without any experience, makes it lots more fiction than fact, but still engaging
by RJfilm
He writes 10 novels a year for Kindle …………. well they are shortish novels…….. He was clearly educated, like me, at a time when the Geography Maps in the Atlas were pink all over the world, the pink indicating British Territories or Commonwealth. He was probably raised, like me again, on a bookcase full of jingo-istic Brit heroics, as described in OUR ISLAND STORY, or OUR EMPIRE STORY by H.E.Marshall…….. In many ways they were a load of tosh, but boy didn’t they stir up the emotions of ten year old boys…….. It was a time when we believed the UK produced the best people in the world, after all we’d come through the World War on the winning side …….. Well the same goes for Mr Wareham’s novels, they’re probably a load of tosh, but boy am I enjoying reading them ……. Obviously now in my second childhood….. The CALL OF THE SEA series features a man who becomes a sea Captain during the wars with the French. Now the aura of such people was set for me by C.S. Forester and his Hornblower novels, and the lieutenants and crew of his ships would never have spoken to Hornblower as they do to Bloody Nick, but I certainly don’t know whose version is correct. I do know I’ll keep reading Andrew Wareham’s books, but only really affordable on Kindle unlimited. He has an interesting style in that the bulk of his stories seem to be told in contemporaneous dialogue or in reported dialogue, there is less of the author’s description than in most novels. ENJOY……..
by Fred
Andrew Wareham. The man from Bere (010422). A seasoned follower of nautical novels, I have found much to add to my knowledge of the tall ships era from this author and interesting it is. (41%). At last, the story which has been getting steadily stronger, turns into a real exciting episode (60%) so that I am reluctant to leave the book for today albeit that I have had my quota!I very much like the way Mr Wareham
Has blended in the historical narrative of life at sea and the action that so often accompanies it in those days. Brilliant section (82 & 84%) will have to give it a second read because of being so carried away but the events therein. I shall be pleased to purchase the next in this series.
Fred
by Popeye00
Most enjoyable read, great story of a country boy taken into the British Navy and his development from ordinary seaman to lowly officer mostly in the Caribbean. Now want to read the next in the series.