The Captain
by De Hartog, Jan
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Georgetown, South Australia, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1967. slight wear to cover edges, some staining rear endpapers, otherwise book clean and tight.. First Edition. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Reviews
On Oct 4 2010, Pby5dumbo said:
Reportedly they have cadets at West Point read Once an Eagle. Midshipmen should read The Captain. This novel loitered on the NYT bestseller list for about four years when I was a teenager. The story is set in the North Atlantic as a young Dutch tugboat captain learns his craft and how to shoulder the burden of command in the face of the U-boats and the horrific weather. In this first-person yarn, the captain charms us with his candor and vulnerability. We taste the food, make allowances for the idiosyncrasies of the small and close-knit crew, stand watches, haul torpedo victims out of the water, assert our national autonomy against the British convoy leaders... We feel the rage when a novice captain exposes us to death by bad rescue procedure. The narrative is constantly captivating. I re-read this book every two years or more often.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Laura Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 036004
- Title
- The Captain
- Author
- De Hartog, Jan
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1967
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- The Captain De Hartog
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Laura Books
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Georgetown, South Australia
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...