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Midshipman Bolitho
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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Richard Bolitho - Midshipman
October 1772, Portsmouth. Sixteen-year-old Richard Bolitho waits to join the Gorgon, ordered to sail to the west coast of Africa and to destroy those who challenge the King's Navy. For Bolitho, and for many of the crew, it is a severe and testing initiation into the game of seamanship.
Midshipman Bolitho and the Avenger
December 1773, Falmouth. The young Bolitho looks forward to a family Christmas in Cornwall while the Gorgon is refitted. But Cornwall is the treacherous stamping ground of smugglers and wreckers. After the murder of a revenue officer, Bolitho is swept aboard his brother's cutter, Avenger, on a dangerous mission of hide-and-seek.
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- markcufc
- 30-04-22
Short and sweet
If you’ve listened to Hornblower they feel like a nice short and sweet version of them, very enjoyable.
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- Nicola Cair
- 31-01-23
Good introduction
I read these back in the day……they are a good introduction to the series and the age of sale.
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- Retro Brit
- 01-04-20
Two splendid navy tales
Each story was compelling and very exciting, going back to the 1070s. The language is good and the whole feel of each story takes me back to those times.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-07-23
Finally gave up
I gave up half way through. Even though the story line should be enjoyable, Somehow I found it lacked changes in momentum and was a bit predictable. I found the narrator despite varying in accents for the characters, slightly monotonous in his pace and overall accent to listen to. There was no good fun adventurous lightness of touch here or humour in the story line or characters. The senior officers all seemed to behave in a uniformly critically negative way, which became a bit waring. Bolitho clearly is a good hero type, in the vein of a Hornblower, but something for me was missing in this storyline and narration.
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- David
- 03-07-21
Repeats and is missing 3rd book
The audio book repeats a couple of chapters and is missing the 3rd book which isn't avaliable on audible, it's a good story and good narration just annoying you can't listen to the whole series
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- Mrs A J
- 19-05-22
Needs Editing
Well narrated, good stories, but needs editing: two books in one recording and duplicate chapters.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-02-24
Midshipman ballitho
excellent book and well told by the narrator Will
look forward to the next book in the series called band of brothers
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-06-21
Not really sure what I was expecting
Overall the book is alright but I feel the narration by Michael Jayston really carried it. The story feels like a mishmash of murder mystery / sea voyage adventure with no connection between them plus a very abrupt ending. Maybe the second books picks up where this one left off. Just feel like I weird way to go about it
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- Thorin Seex
- 25-05-20
Not Patrufk Or Forrester
its ok but it's not in the same league as books featuring Aubrey or Hornblower
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- R
- 01-03-23
Pretty good
This was advertised as the first 2 books when I bought it, the only problem that I had was a couple of the chapters are duplicated in book 2. Nothing that a quick skip can’t solve. Have had this before a couple of times over my audible history (over 10 years.)
Enjoyed the story, as a bit of light listening, and will continue with the rest. It is a shame that audible doesn’t have the third book but never mind.
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