Sharpe's Escape
by Bernard Cornwell | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0007120141 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0007120141 Global Overview for this book
Registered by 
Plum-crazy
of Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on 2/21/2012
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
Plum-crazy of Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on 2/21/2012 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by Plum-crazy from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Monday, March 19, 2012
Plum-crazy from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Monday, March 19, 2012
The twentieth instalment in the bestselling Sharpe series.
It is 1810 and the French are making yet another attempt to invade Portugal. Facing them is a wasted land, stripped of food by Wellington's orders, and captain Richard Sharpe. But Sharpe is in trouble. His job as Captain of the Light Company is under threat and he has made a new enemy, a Portuguese criminal known as Ferragus. Sharpe, discarded by his regiment, wages a private war against Ferragus -- a war fought through the burning, pillaged streets of Coimbra, Portugal's ancient university city. Sharpe's enemies are numerous but on his side he has Sergeant Patrick Harper, the Portuguese officer Jorge Vincent and a prickly English governess, whose first aim is to clean up Sharpe's language.
Sharpe's Escape begins on the great, gaunt ridge of Bussaco where a joint British and Portuguese army meets the overwhelming strength of Marshall Massena's crack troops. It finishes at Torres Vedras where the French hopes of occupying Portugal quickly die. This is a classic Sharpe novel, with Richard Sharpe in his finest form reunited with Patrick Harper, and facing enemies on every side
It is 1810 and the French are making yet another attempt to invade Portugal. Facing them is a wasted land, stripped of food by Wellington's orders, and captain Richard Sharpe. But Sharpe is in trouble. His job as Captain of the Light Company is under threat and he has made a new enemy, a Portuguese criminal known as Ferragus. Sharpe, discarded by his regiment, wages a private war against Ferragus -- a war fought through the burning, pillaged streets of Coimbra, Portugal's ancient university city. Sharpe's enemies are numerous but on his side he has Sergeant Patrick Harper, the Portuguese officer Jorge Vincent and a prickly English governess, whose first aim is to clean up Sharpe's language.
Sharpe's Escape begins on the great, gaunt ridge of Bussaco where a joint British and Portuguese army meets the overwhelming strength of Marshall Massena's crack troops. It finishes at Torres Vedras where the French hopes of occupying Portugal quickly die. This is a classic Sharpe novel, with Richard Sharpe in his finest form reunited with Patrick Harper, and facing enemies on every side
Journal Entry 2 by Plum-crazy at RNLI Shop in Port Patrick, Scotland United Kingdom on Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Plum-crazy at RNLI Shop in Port Patrick, Scotland United Kingdom on Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Released 12 yrs ago (3/31/2012 UTC) at RNLI Shop in Port Patrick, Scotland United Kingdom
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Three or four copies of this book found in a box bought at an auction, so moving this copy on to a good cause!
Released as part of the 4ELEMENTS Challenge (#33)(esCAPE)
& the 2012 TV SERIES Challenge (#4)
If you're reading this then you've found a travelling book!
The point of releasing book into the "wild" is that they are a free gift from the bookcrosser to the finder.However, in this case, the book was given as a donation to
the RNLI Charity Shop
so you will have had to pay for it. Thank you for purchasing it & contributing to the RNLI.
I hope you enjoy reading it & when you've read it, why not do an entry to tell us hwat you thought of it & to say where it's going next.Then all it's readers, past & present, will be able to follow it's travels.
(If you decide to join in the fun at bookcrossing, please consider putting me, Plum-crazy as your referring member.....help spread the words!)
Released as part of the 4ELEMENTS Challenge (#33)(esCAPE)
& the 2012 TV SERIES Challenge (#4)
If you're reading this then you've found a travelling book!
The point of releasing book into the "wild" is that they are a free gift from the bookcrosser to the finder.However, in this case, the book was given as a donation to
the RNLI Charity Shop
so you will have had to pay for it. Thank you for purchasing it & contributing to the RNLI.
I hope you enjoy reading it & when you've read it, why not do an entry to tell us hwat you thought of it & to say where it's going next.Then all it's readers, past & present, will be able to follow it's travels.
(If you decide to join in the fun at bookcrossing, please consider putting me, Plum-crazy as your referring member.....help spread the words!)
