Broadbent, Peter
Felix Wild
Saved from a further spell in prison by the wealthy William Kettle, Felix joins the Kettle household in East London and is employed to make drawings of the building of a magnificent new iron-clad vessel, HMS Warrior.
His eagerness to learn new things knows no bounds: from working out how to use a knife and fork, and reading a dictionary from cover to cover, to being given the ‘tipsy key’ for the chronometers during his first voyage on board Warrior as she conducts sea-trials. While the men he meets are in awe of his drawing skills, the young women are absorbed in rather less cerebral matters, namely the fit of his fashionably tight ‘gas-pipe’ trousers and his distinctive looks - one eye is blue, the other green.
Felix Wild is a captivating novel that has all the affectionate humour and vivid sense of place that has made Peter Broadbent’s naval memoirs so popular.
Keywords: HMS Warrior, Royal Navy, Victorian, Portsmouth, Gosport, Gibraltar, Thames Iron Works, adventure, sailors, steam ships
- Author(s)
- Broadbent, Peter
- Publisher
- Andrews UK
- Publication year
- 2019
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 2
- Series
- Felix Wild
- Page amount
- 333 pages
- Categories
- Historical
- Action & Adventure
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781911105244
- Printed ISBN
- 9781911105213