Category:
Action,
Adventure,
Military,
Teen & Young AdultLanguage:
EnglishKeywords:
18th Century Dorset Boy Naval Adventure NovellaWritten by Christopher C. Tubbs
Read by Grant Stimpson
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
A Talent for Trouble: The Dorset Boy, Book 1
By: Christopher C. Tubbs
Narrated by: Grant Stimpson
Series: Dorset Boy , Book 1
Series
Dorset Boy
Release date
10-02-2020
Language
English
Format
Unabridged Audiobook
Length
5 hrs and 55 mins
Publisher
The Dorset Boy Publishing
Categories
Literature & Fiction
In the late 18th century, life was cheap and you had fight to survive.Martin Stockley at 12 years old was underfed and undersized as the youngest of nine in a Dorset clay miner’s family and was probably doomed to die, worn out and broken at a very young age in the clay mines of Dorset. But he had a sharp mind, had learned to read, write, and do his numbers and had a fascination for maps.A stroke of good fortune sees him escape that destiny and be taken on as a ship’s boy and under steward to the captain in the Royal Navy frigate the Falcon. What follows is a chronicle of his talent for getting into and out of trouble at Gibraltar, the siege of Toulon, and against Barbary pirates.Luck and a lot of Dorset courage sees him at the center of a series of adventures. Blood, guts, a beautiful Contessa and prize money. What more could a young lad from Dorset ask for?©2018 Christopher C. Tubbs (P)2020 Christopher C. Tubbs