Book
Kydd
First published 2001
In 1793 Thomas Paine Kydd is taken by a press gang from his work as a Guildford wig-maker and sent aboard the ship of the line Duke William. He enters a closed world of watches, rigging, discipline and violence without the knowledge that even the lowest-rated sailor is expected to possess.
Friendship with the educated Nicholas Renzi helps Kydd survive while battle and storm reveal the skill beneath lower-deck routines. What begins as forced service becomes the discovery of an ability and identity that could carry him beyond the life from which he was seized.
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