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Cargando... Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoahpor Tom Chaffin
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Excellent story of the last Confederate cruiser. Relying heavily upon memoirs of Captain James Waddell and other members of the crew, the author renders an exciting account of the naval exploits of a Confederate raider that never killed an enemy. Chaffin is a very good writer. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
The story of 58,000-mile, around-the-world cruise of the Confederacy's last ship afloat. Launched secretly from England in October, 1864, the CSS Shenandoah became the Confederacy's second most successful merchant raider, but--after rounding Africa's Cape of Good Hope, stopping long enough in Australia to cause a diplomatic crisis, and navigating the ice floes of Siberia's Sea of Okhotsk, the Bering Sea, and the Arctic Ocean--Captain Waddell learned that he had been fighting without cause or state, since the Civil War had ended four months earlier. In the eyes of the Union, he had gone from being an enemy combatant to a pirate, a hangable offense. Hunted by Union and British men-of-war, his polyglot crew rife with hints of mutiny, and with dwindling supplies, Waddell elected to camouflage the ship, circumnavigate the globe, and attempt to surrender on English soil.--From publisher description. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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