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Birds of prey / Wilbur Smith.
The year is 1667. Sir Francis Courtney and his son Hal are on patrol in their fighting caravel off the Agulhas Cape of South Africa. They are lying in wait for one of the treasure-laden galleons of the Dutch East India Company returning from the Orient. so begins a quest for adventure and the spoils of war that sweeps them from the settlement of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa to the Great Horn of Ethiopia far to the north - at a time when international maritime law permitted acts of piracy, rape, and murder otherwise punishable by death. Wilbur Smith introduces a generation of the indomitable Courtneys and thrillingly re-creates their part in the struggle for supremacy and riches on the high seas.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780333653302
- ISBN: 9780312963811
- ISBN: 9780330352895
- ISBN: 9780312157913
- Physical Description: 554 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: London : Macmillan, 1997.
- Copyright: ©1997.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Map on lining papers. |
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| Subject: | Anglo-Dutch War, 1664-1667 > Fiction. Courtney family (Fictitious characters) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Adventure stories. Sea stories. Historical fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Elkford Public Library | FC SMI (Text) | 35170000310235 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Beaver Valley Public Library | F SMI (Text) | 0023562 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Bridge River Branch | AF SMI (Text) | 35180200063427 | Paperbacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Castlegar Public Library | FIC SMI (Text) | 35146001939149 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fernie Heritage Library | FIC SMI (Text) | 35136000420282 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fort St. James Public Library | SMI (Courtney #9) (Text) | 35196000072103 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Gibsons Public Library | FIC SMIT (Text) | 30886000554077 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Kimberley Public Library | F SMI (Text) | KPL82634 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Nakusp Public Library | FIC SMI (Text) | 35160000391749 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Prince Rupert Library | Smit (Text) | 33294001826783 | Adult Fiction - Second Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
