"A private revenge" - читать интересную книгу автора (Вудмен Ричард)

PART ONE The Damoclean Sword

'Seamen are neither reckoned among the living, nor the dead, their whole lives being spent in jeopardy. No sooner is one peril over, but another comes rolling on, like the waves of a fullgrown sea.' Samuel Kelly, An Eighteenth-Century Seaman, 1786