Research Catalog
The shores of Tripoli
- Title
- The shores of Tripoli / James L. Haley.
- Author
- Haley, James L
- Publication
- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2016]
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Details
- Description
- 448 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "The first novel in a brilliant new series by award-winning historian James L. Haley, featuring young midshipman Bliven Putnam as he begins his naval service aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. 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. Rich with historical detail and cracking with high-wire action, The Shores of Tripoli brings this amazing period in American history to life with brilliant clarity"--
- "The first novel in a brilliant new series by award-winning historian James L. Haley, featuring young midshipman Bliven Putnam as he begins his naval service aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise"--
- Series Statement
- Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Action and adventure fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- War stories.
- Sea fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-448).
- Call Number
- JFE 16-13478
- ISBN
- 9780399171109
- 039917110X
- LCCN
- 2016010831
- OCLC
- 2016010831
- Author
- Haley, James L, author.
- Title
- The shores of Tripoli / James L. Haley.
- Publisher
- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-448).
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-13478