Passage to Mutiny by Alexander Kent (Douglas Edward Reeman) - 1976

London, UK: Hutchinson , 1976 Hutchinson, London, UK. 1976. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light bumping to tail; light shelfwear to board top and bottom edges. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped (£3.45); light wear to head and upper tips; scotch tape repaired tear to front gutter. Blue paper over boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. Captain and Ship as endpapers. 315 pp 8vo. 9th Richard Bolitho novel. October 1789, New South Wales. Into Sydney, capital of Britain's infant colony, sails the frigate Tempest. She is one of His Majesty's ships employed in policing the new southern trade routes. Her captain is Richard Bolitho, who hopes to be ordered home to England. Instead he is dispatched on a mission to the islands of the Great South Sea, where he must face hazards of fickle winds, pirates and savage islanders. But he is menaced by deeper fears; the men of the Bounty have mutinied in these same waters; and from distant Europe comes news of a revolution in France. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.