The Captain
by De Hartog, Jan
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Atheneum 1966, 1966. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Octavo, hardcover, broken front hinge else good in black boards. No dj. Maps endpps of northern Atlantic, Greenland, Soviet Union, Norway, Sweden, Greenland Sea, Arctic Ocean and inlay of British Isles. A novel of the sea on a grand scale, during WW II, surely one of the cruelest tests to which men and ships have ever been put. 434 pp. Top pages edged in red.
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
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4556
- Title
- The Captain
- Author
- De Hartog, Jan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New York: Atheneum 1966
- Date Published
- 1966
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...