The Captain

6 best books like The Captain (Jan de Hartog): The Cruel Sea, Red at the Bone, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, On The Black Hill, Klingsor, De ridder is gestorven

AuthorNicholas Monsarrat
ISBN1580800467
“[T]hat was the way the war was going; the individual had to retreat or submerge, the simple unfeeling pair of hands must come to the fore. The emphasis was now on the tireless machine of war; men were parts of this machine, and so they must remain, till they fulfilled their function or wore out. If, in...
Red at the Bone
AuthorJacqueline Woodson
ISBN0525535276
Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of the new child.

As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of...
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
AuthorDavid McCullough
ISBN1501168681
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.

As...
On The Black Hill
AuthorBruce Chatwin
On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advances of the twentieth century.

In depicting the lives of Benjamin and Lewis...
Klingsor
AuthorTorgny Lindgren
ISBN9113058363
Hur han än vände och vred på glaset inför sina glupska ögon stod det snett och lutande. Det lutade mycket kraftigt, än hit, än dit. Att stå rakt upp som ett anständigt glas förmådde det inte. Glaset hade helt enkelt rätat på sig.

Men eftersom det stod på en stubbe som varit sågad...
De ridder is gestorven
AuthorCees Nooteboom
Een schrijver bezoekt het Spaanse eiland waar zijn vriend Andre Steenkamp, die ook schrijver was, zijn laatste maanden heeft doorgebracht. Het doel van zijn bezoek aan het eiland is om het boek waar Steenkamp aan bezig was af te maken en tegelijk die laatste periode van zijn leven opnieuw te creeren...
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