A Sea-King's Midshipman

By Arthur Lee Knight

1818: It is now three years since Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo and banished to St. Helena in the South Atlantic. Lionel Tracey is crossing the Atlantic on board his father's ship. But the wheels of fortune are turning fast. Lionel is thrown together with Lord Cochrane, whom Napoleon called the Sea Wolf - an officer undefeated in many naval battles. The war in Europe is happily over, but the Spanish colonies in the Americas are yearning for independence. Chile has engaged Lord Cochrane to lead their new navy against the Spanish. Pukka perils await Lionel in this thrilling novel of the sea and adventures in the crumbling Spanish Empire. Will he prevail? What will his inexorable fate be?

Arthur Lee Knight (1852 - 7 Jul 1944) was a popular author of adventure books in the late 19th and early 20th century. Around 1868 he joined the Royal Navy at the age of sixteen as a junior midshipman, where he served on the 51-gun screw frigate HMS Forte.
Having been a midshipman in the navy he was familiar with life in the navy and many of the episodes in his novels - such as hunting Arab slave traders - are clearly events he experienced himself and give unique insight into the world and people in the Victorian age. His readable and often racy stories are characterized by authentic navy language of the time and evocative descriptions of seascapes, distant countries and unusual people.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BQXVZLBH
• ISBN13: 9798370865534
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"