BUCCANEER.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 .] FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by Larry Rostant,illustrated dw/dj with gilt and b/w lettering to front and spine; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present - one tiny snick to front,lower edge's spine/backstrip's gutter's edge/crease.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-338pp [paginated] includes 18 chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a historical setting/note,2 b/w maps (South America and Caribbean Sea),and to the rear; a historical note and 4pp blanks.
Author's 2nd novel in the Hector Lynch series,following on from 'Corsair'. In this second Hector Lynch adventure,the young seafarer falls into the hands of the notorious buccaneer Captain John Coxon, who mistakes him for the nephew of Sir Thomas Lynch,Governor of Jamaica.Hector encourages the error so that his friends Jacques and Dan can go free.Coxon delivers Hector to Sir Henry Morgan,a bitter enemy of Governor Lynch.The captain expects to curry favour with Morgan,but is publicly humiliated when the deception is revealed.From now on Hector has a dangerous enemy.Befriended by Jezreel,an ex-prize fighter,Hector meets up again with Jacques and Dan,and the four comrades join the great buccaneer raid which marches through the jungle and attacks Panama.The capture of a high Spanish official's elegant wife leads Hector into a web of deceit.Thanks to his skills as a negotiator,the buccaneers ransom their captive in exchange for safe passage out of the South Sea,only to discover when they arrive back in the West Indies that they are wanted men.Captain Coxon has turned state's evidence and Hector stands accused of murder and piracy.His survival depends on a young Spanish woman with whom he has fallen in love and the secret intelligence he has gained . . . In 'Buccaneer' Tim Severin takes us on another enthralling voyage back to the 17thC,this time to the lush and colourful Caribbean and the Great South Sea.Drawing on the original diaries and logbooks of men detested by their Spanish opponents as outright pirates,he brings to life a world of rapacious sea captains, rum-sodden colonial officials,wealthy plantation heiresses,and reckless adventurers,whose fortunes depend on their skill with musket and cutlass. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
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