I've just started my 3rd Lord Ramage novel & find them all most enjoyable. Mr. Pope and Alexander Kent are both very good reads in that it is easy to visualize...
VIPER
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May 2, 2001 1:31 am
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... Unfortunately, Dudley Pope died April 25, 1997 at the age of 71. He was torpedoed aboard a merchant ship in 1942, this resulted in spinal injuries that...
Mark Winthrop
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May 2, 2001 10:26 pm
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Thanks Mark...lots of info that I did not know.. Viper ... From: Mark Winthrop To: dudleypope@yahoogroups.com ; dudleypope@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May...
Joe O'Steen
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May 3, 2001 1:06 am
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Dear Joe, If you liked Kent and Pope, I recomend you the Hornblower serie, by C.S. Forester, and Aubrey-Maturin serie, by O´Brian. I think the last is the...
Edhasa
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May 3, 2001 8:02 am
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Josep Thanks for the info & recommendation but I have read all of Hornblower,O'Brian's Jack Aubry,James Nelson(awaiting for the next to be published),The "Fox...
Joe O'Steen
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May 3, 2001 9:30 pm
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Dear Joe, I see you are an expert in nautical fiction!! I would like to know your opinion about the books of Chatham. They had published in the last years some...
Edhasa
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May 4, 2001 6:46 am
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Josep, thank you for the referral to Aubrey Maturin. I haven't read any of them yet. Mr. Pope owed a debt of gratitude to Mr. Forester, even referring to...
Dave Bennett
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May 7, 2001 2:27 am
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Dear Dave, not only Pope had a debt of gratitude to Forester. If you read "Master and comander" by O´Brian, you will find some aspects from "Flying colours"...
Edhasa
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May 7, 2001 7:36 am
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Good luck with Aubrey Maturin, I have never found it as enjoyable a read as Pope. Have you read Pope's Ned Yorke series? It is really enjoyable. Kevin Date:...
Kevin Stall
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May 7, 2001 9:11 am
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... companions of Hornblower or Aubrey&Maturin? Dudley Pope wrote a second nautical series that impinged on the Ramage series -- the Yorke series. It was six...
Mark & Janet Lardas +...
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May 7, 2001 12:08 pm
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... The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower by C. Northcote Parkinson List Price: $10.95 Paperback - 320 pages (October 1998) Sutton Publishing; ISBN:...
Mark Winthrop
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May 7, 2001 5:45 pm
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Mark I read your comments from John's nautical site. I enjoyed them very much and learned quite a bit I did not know . But nothing new since June 97? You have...
Joe O'Steen
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May 7, 2001 10:05 pm
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Dear Josep: I, too, don't know of any specific companion to Pope's books (except, maybe, the non-fiction books he wrote himself). I have read only Forester,...
Dave Bennett
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May 8, 2001 10:44 am
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Thank you for the information about Northcote Parkinson. But, ¿nothing about a companion book about Ramage? Nobody had writed a real companion of Dudley Pope...
Edhasa
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May 8, 2001 11:13 am
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A question to the Pope and nautical fiction books friends: anybody knows Tuckwell Press? I think they had published recently a selected proceedings of...
Edhasa
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May 8, 2001 1:23 pm
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Hello Josep, This question of a companion to the Pope/Ramage series and the Kent/Bolitho series was raised a few months ago as well. I do wish there was a...
Squarebriggs
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May 8, 2001 11:54 pm
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Good news. I have in my hands the spanish edition of The discovery of the slowness, by Sten Nadolny, with the picture by John Wilson Carchinal "The Erebus and...
Edhasa
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May 10, 2001 7:52 am
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... Ramages Diamond is the very best novel of the series. Most people I have spoken to or corresponded with have agreed with this. The two following volumes -...
Mark Winthrop
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May 10, 2001 1:46 pm
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Greetings! My name is DJ and I am a high school student in Windsor, Canada. Recently, for my English Independent Study Unit, I chose to read two pieces of...
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May 10, 2001 3:16 pm
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Hi DJ One thing you could do is to review all the postings on this maillist. There's a lot of information here, some of which could be of use. You could also...
Dave Bennett
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May 10, 2001 3:52 pm
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... Look at my Dudley Pope website: http://winthrop.webjump.com/dpope.html kind regards, Mark Winthrop of Copenhagen, Denmark ... )_) )_) )_) )___)...
Mark Winthrop
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May 10, 2001 8:03 pm
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A big thank you to both Mark Winthorp and Dave Bennett for providing me with some information. I will update you on essay and of course on the mark that I...
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May 10, 2001 9:11 pm
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Hello Josep, My favorite Ramage books are: 1 Ramages Diamond (great story, suspense and characters, and well told) 2 Ramages Mutiny ( also a great story,...
Robert Squarebriggs
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May 11, 2001 1:07 am
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Hi! I have a question for all of you Dudley Pope book lovers. How are Nicholas Ramage and Ned Yorke (1600's) exemplify traditional heroes in literature? What...
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May 11, 2001 9:01 pm
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I'd say that, like most traditional heroes, they can think quickly on their feet, they're good at planning and stratedy, inspire confidence and trust in their...
Dave Bennett
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May 12, 2001 5:46 am
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In a message dated 5/11/2001 4:43:06 AM Pacific Daylight Time, dudleypope@yahoogroups.com writes: << I am anxious to hear more of this connection, so maybe...
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May 12, 2001 8:27 am
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Hello Josep, Many thanks for the link to the MacKay site. There was a wealth of connections with my family included in the site. Much of this information I...
Robert Squarebriggs
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May 13, 2001 3:20 am
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... You can contact the UK Public Records Office at Kew and have them get an "independent" researcher" appointed by them and paid for by you to find the ...
Mark Winthrop
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May 13, 2001 1:03 pm
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Dear dave, Are you agree that an important model of Ramage was the captain Lord Thomas Cochrane?? I think he had, more than Nelson, this qualities. Kind...
Edhasa
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May 14, 2001 7:51 am
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... The heroes of ALL modern nautical fiction are based on various amalgams of the two great British frigate Captains, Cochrane and Pellew (with a little ...