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The Wreck of the Mary Deare
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Author: Hammond Innes
Dusk is at hand as a Biscay gale shoves waves and weather into the channel. John Sands, standing watch aboard the Sea Witch, spots a freighter, low in the water but making adequate way. She slips round Ushant and heads into the darkness. — Next morning the storm is gone, but not the freighter. There she is, the Mary Deare, abandoned and nearing t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780345274144
ISBN-10: 0345274148
Publication Date: 10/1978
Pages: 223
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Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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"Hammond Innes, writing as always of the struggle of man against the elements, for the first time takes the most violent element of all for his protagonist. The sea thunders through the pages of this book. And in Gideon Patch, master of the Mary Deare, we have a character worthy of the element. This is a great sea story."


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