Men and mountaineering: An anthology of writings (A Hamish Hamilton collection)

Sports & Outdoors

STYLES, Showell

Mountaineering

Hamilton

It wasn't the first time that His Majesty's armed schooner Gipsy had encountered a Caribbean hurricane. But for Lieutenant Michael Fitton, who commanded her, this particular hurricane was to bring quite unexpected dangers and problems: an uncharted coral island, a clash with his old enemy the French Gloire, and the surprising advent of Mrs Sarah Buckley. And it seemed to Fitton that these stirring events were put in train by a cockroach - or to be more precise, half a cockroach. First published in 2000 Mr Fitton's Hurricane was the eleventh and last of Showell Styles' sequence of novels about Fitton, a real-life seafaring hero of the Napoleonic age. All eleven are now available in Faber Finds. Frank Showell Styles was born in Four Oaks, Warwickshire, in 1908 and served in the Royal Navy in World War Two before embarking on his successful literary career, during which he published over 160 books. He died in 2005.

MR Fitton's Hurricane

Literature & Fiction

Faber&Faber

Welsh Walks and Legends

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Mayflower / Granada Publishing

First published in 1979 The Baltic Convoy continues the adventures of Showell Styles's hero Michael Fitton. Now past middle-age and still only a lieutenant the widowed Michael Fitton is in command of the gun-brig Cracker and has sailed to the Baltics to escort a convoy bringing timber back to Britain. This is an important mission for Fitton for without the timber Britain's chances of winning the war with France are greatly reduced as too many of its fleet need substantial repairs and wood is scarce. The task is made doubly dangerous as Britain is also at war with Denmark. Having to navigate the eight vessels through enemy-occupied waters Fitton has an unexpected coup when he takes the vessel Amalie prisoner and discovers Baron La Haye - the most powerful Frenchman in Denmark - and his daughter Madame Brennier on board. Double-crossed and with his ship in peril Fitton must fight to get the convoy back to safety, even if it means losing the woman he loves for ever.

The Baltic convoy

Genre Fiction

Hamlyn

A historical thriller featuring Lieutenant Michael Fitton, who is involved in another maritime adventure that takes place in the Caribbean. From the author of 12 GUN CUTTER.

Lieutenant Fitton

Robert Hale First Edition

When the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the West Indies Squadron ordered the armed schooner Gipsy to add a second officer to her compliment, Lieutenant Fitton was not pleased.

Mr Fitton at the Helm

Robert Hale, Ltd.

Stella and the Fireships

William Kimber

The Lee Shore

Contemporary

HarperCollins, Publishers

HMS Cracker

Sea Road to Camperdown

SPHERE

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