The Battle and the Breeze (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781421889764)

Bill Bowls was the most amiable, gentle, kindly, and modest fellow that ever trod the deck of a man-of-war. He was also one of the most lion-hearted men in the Navy. When Bill was a baby-a round-faced, large-eyed, fat-legged baby, as unlike to the bronzed, whiskered, strapping seaman who went by the name of "Fighting Bill" as a jackdaw is to a marlinespike-when Bill was a baby, his father used to say he was just cut out for a sailor; and he was right, for the urchin was overflowing with vigour and muscular energy. He was utterly reckless, and very earnest-we might almost say desperately earnest.

Author: Robert Michael Ballantyne
ISBN-10: 1421889765
ISBN-13: 9781421889764
Publisher: 1st World Publishing
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2008
Pages: 108
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d