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    The Shores of Tripoli: Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates
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    The Shores of Tripoli: Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates

    Written by James L. Haley

    Narrated by Paul Boehmer

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    "The history is thoroughly researched, the fiction inventive, the style at once easygoing and rapid. … This is a marvelous and richly enjoyable novel, and the intended series to follow promises to do for the American Navy and the Marines what C.S. Forester and Patrick O'Brian did for the Royal Navy. … More, please." --Wall Street Journal

    The first novel in a brilliant new series by award-winning historian James L. Haley, featuring young midshipman Bliven Putnam as he begins his naval service aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise.

    It is 1801 and President Thomas Jefferson has assembled a deep-water navy to fight the growing threat of piracy, as American civilians are regularly kidnapped by Islamist brigands and held for ransom, enslaved, or killed, all at their captors' whim. The Berber States of North Africa, especially Tripoli, claimed their faith gave them the right to pillage anyone who did not submit to their religion.

    Young Bliven Putnam, great-nephew of Revolutionary War hero Israel Putnam, is bound for the Mediterranean and a desperate battle with the pirate ship Tripoli. He later returns under legendary Commodore Edward Preble on the Constitution, and marches across the Libyan desert with General Eaton to assault Derna-discovering the lessons he learns about war, and life, are not what he expected.

    Rich with historical detail and cracking with high-wire action, The Shores of Tripoli brings this amazing period in American history to life with brilliant clarity.

    "James L. Haley has taken the naval adventure genre to places it has not gone before, filled with strong, believable characters who nearly jump of the page, deeply researched details of life both here and abroad...and a powerful, sweeping view of one of the seminal events in the early history of our country...a rollicking good time."-Brian Kilmeade, author of Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

    "Page-turning action...Haley's deck-by-deck tour of the legendary frigate is fascinating."-Kirkus Reviews
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateNov 1, 2016
    ISBN9781524702120
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    The Shores of Tripoli: Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates
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    James L. Haley

    JAMES L. HALEY is a critically acclaimed historian and biographer. His books have been praised by Publishers Weekly who called Passionate Nation: An Epic History of Texas "Outstanding." USA Today called his book Wolf: The Lives of Jack London "fascinating," and The Wall Street Journal said that Haley "surpasses Irving Stone."

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    • 4/5
      Fair story with some lively fictional and real life characters of early days in the U.S. Navy. Putnam is a midshipman on a small US ship that defeats and captures a Muslim pirate ship. We follow his life on leave on the family farm in Connecticut Some good insights into the politics, economy and religions of this time period Research generally solid.Returning to sea, he manages to be in most of the conflicts that his country faces in the Mediterranean so his promotion is rapid. Not a particularly believable career for the young man but sufficiently interested to read the next episode.
    • 4/5
      For lovers of historical fiction, this volume fills a giant void. Our schools teach almost nothing about the US Navy and its adventures in the Mediterranean circa 1800. Follow a young man from Connecticut as he battles pirates, trains his men in the operation of the ship's gunnery, and is initiated into the grown-up world of love. We read of sea battles in the great sailing ships, intrigue and politics in the dealings of the government officials, and the relationships that are formed by men in battle. I highly recommend this read and I thank the author and the Penguin First to Read program for a complimentary copy.