Buy this book on-line CARTER, PETER: : The SentinelsUK.OXFORD,OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS,1980. ISBN 0192714384.
UK,8vo HB+dw/j,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by Paul Wright,illustrated dw/dj,with red lettering to upper panel and spine/
backstrip - the latter with ubiquitous but light sunning/fading; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+
fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB +dw/dj,1st edn,1-247pp [paginated] includes 31 chapters and an epilogue,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication with a b/w Africa regional coastal map to its reverse,by Leslie Marshall,and an author's note.
When John Spencer's parents die his uncle packs John off into the Royal Navy as a 'Gentleman Volunteer'.His ship,HMS Sentinel is bound for the worst service in the Navy,the West African Squadron,the anti-slavery patrol.
Torn by civil war and shattered by the impact of fire-power,the tribal organisation of West Africa is breaking down.Especially the once powerful kingdom of Old Oyo (in present day Nigeria) is open to invasion by war-parties hunting for slaves.One man taken as a slave is Lyapo,a farmer,captured by Dahomey warriors.Chained,desperate,separated from his wife and children,Lyapo is passed from trader to trader until he is bought by the ruthless Ameircan,Kimber,master of the slave-ship Phantom.Bound for the plantations of America,Lyapo now faces the hazards of the high seas where,when Sentinel and Phantom meet,he finds himself joining John Spencer in a desperate struggle for survival.
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