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Author:

Haley, James L., author.

Title:

The shores of Tripoli (#1) : Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates / James L. Haley

Publisher:

G.P. Putnam's Sonsan imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

United States--History, Naval--19th century--Fiction.
United States.--Navy--Officers--Fiction.
Battleships--Fiction.
United States--History--Tripolitan War, 1801-1805--Fiction.
Pirates--Africa, North--Fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Historical fiction.
War fiction.
Sea fiction.

Notes:

"A novel"--Cover.

Summary:

It is 1801 and President Thomas Jefferson has assembled a deep-water navy to fight the growing threat of piracy, as American civilians are regularly kidnapped by Islamist brigands and held for ransom, enslaved, or killed, all at their captors' whim. The Berber States of North Africa, especially Tripoli, claimed their faith gave them the right to pillage anyone who did not submit to their religion. Young Bliven Putnam, great-nephew of Revolutionary War hero Israel Putnam, is bound for the Mediterranean and a desperate battle with the pirate ship Tripoli. He later returns under legendary Commodore Edward Preble on the Constitution, and marches across the Libyan desert with General Eaton to assault Derna--discovering the lessons he learns about war, and life, are not what he expected.

Series:

Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates ; #1

ISBN:

039917110X
9780399171109

OCLC:

(OCoLC)946579713

LCCN:

2016010831

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