Binding dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine; would be fine apart from the top right hand corner of the opening page having been clipped for about one and a half inches by one inch, possibly where there was either a previous owner's name or an inscription. Other than this, the book is tight and clean. Dj has some minor edgewear along its top edge and a short, half-inch tear half way along the top edge of the back cover; now protected inside a cover. Barque Whisper is the second of a trilogy of novels begun with Ennal's Point, a story of lifeboat rescue in the Bristol Channel. Now the strands of the past are opened up in a story of the sea that touches on one of the most bizarre mutinies in maritime history and gives an authentic account of the nightmare horrors of a Cape Horn passage. Some of the most dramatic moments of the novel, including the descent of a plague of locusts, are drawn from Alun Richard's vast knowledge of sea records of the past.

Historical Naval Fiction Mutiny