Used books have different signs of use and might not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. What hope was there that the excluded Christian nations, in their envy and resentment, would honour this declaration?

Nothing original in this story; it’s effectively the first Courtney book set in an earlier time with a dominant patriarch, a faithful black servant and a young pup learning the ropes along with a bunch of bad guys doing very nasty things and women whose principal role is to add some sex interest. A breath-taking adventure from start to finish, Birds of Prey by Wilbur Smith is a fabulous addition to The Courtneys of Africa series. Smith's books generally follow the same formula, but his mixture of history, setting, and action really works. There are some strong languages, morbid descriptions, and gruesome details throughout the book, which made me flinch from time to time.Two fall in love with as little encouragement as astrological predetermination and watching him in action. Some questions for the author: Hal has no problem marrying a Muslim Balinese woman--indeed, he doesn't even seem to realize that she is not Christian. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.

All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Far below in the pre-dawn darkness he heard the great bronze culverins slat against their blocks and come up with a thump against their straining tackle. The hull throbbed and resonated to a different impulse as she swung round and went plunging away back into the west. Smith deftly evokes not only the horrific but also the beautiful, particularly the lush landscape of Africa.Hal soon learns that leading a crew is more complex than he first thought and that protecting the innocent, particularly his fellow Christians, is death-defying. These documents were issued to privateer captains, essentially giving them permission to attack any antagonistic vessel, port, town, or city.

His bestselling Courtney series includes Assegai, The Sound of Thunder, Birds of Prey, Monsoon, and Blue Horizon. It’s a story of high adventure on the seas, with pirates, sea battles, hidden treasures, slavery and dastardly villains. Already they had waited sixty-five tedious days, beating monotonously back and forth, but today the Dutchmen might come, and Hal stared out into the gathering day with parted lips and straining green eyes. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there is something for every literary palate.When Ann Waite discovers a shipwreck in Algoa Bay she is stunned to find survivors: a scarred sailor and a little boy. But sometimes I felt I was watching a mini-series dumbed down for a TV audience as I read this installment of the generational saga of the Courteneys. Within the waters of the northern continent, acts of piracy, rapine and murder – whose perpetrator previously would have been hunted down by the combined navies of Christian Europe and hanged from his own yard-arm – were condoned and even applauded when committed beyond the Line. Hal could sense anger in the set of his shoulders and the way in which he slammed the instrument shut and tossed his mane of black hair. They moved sluggishly – they had been too long in these warm southern waters, and their timbers were infested with the Toredo worm.