Tyger : a Kydd sea adventure
(2015)
By:
Stockwin, Julian
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/STOCKWIN,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Ithaca, N.Y. : McBooks Press, Inc., 2015
DESCRIPTION
xiii, 338 pages : maps ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781590137000, 1590137000, 9781590137000
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Kydd is offered a new command but that ship is still under construction, so he decides to look up one of his old naval friends and enjoy some of the pleasures of London. This is cut short when he is summoned to Portsmouth to bear witness at the trial of Sir Home Popham for his actions at Cape Town and Buenos Aires. When his personal feelings about the way his old commander was treated become public, Kydd finds himself in hot water with the Admiralty. He is punished for his indiscretion by being given a different command: a mutiny ship, Tyger, moored at Yarmouth. On board he faces numerous challenges from a hostile and dejected crew, still under a malign influence