Frank Knight
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Description
Francis Edgar "Frank" Knight (1905-1998) was a navigation instructor in the Royal Air Force during World War II. After his retirement he became an author of fiction and non-fiction.
Books
Stories of famous sea fights
Accounts of twenty great sea battles which have shaped history, such as the battle of Salamis in 480 B.C., the Romans at Actium, Vera Cruz, Lepanto, Trafalgar, Jutland, and Leyte Gulf in 1944.
Captain Cook and the voyage of the Endeavour, 1768-1771
Describes the voyage of the ship Endeavor in which James Cook sailed around Cape Horn to New Zealand where he mapped the North and South islands. Based on Cook's own diary of the voyage.
Stories of famous explorers by land
Tells the stories of all kinds of explorers, their travels, their adventures, their achievements and their problems.
Stories of famous sea adventures
Eighteen accounts of true adventures at sea, describing such incidents as the escape of some galley slaves, the mutiny on the Bounty, and the Ohio's struggle to reach Malta during World War II.
Remember Vera Cruz!
A fourteen-year-old boy sailing in 1568 with an English trading fleet is taken hostage by the Spanish while in the port of Vera Cruz, escapes during an Aztec uprising, and begins a dangerous journey to freedom.
Olaf's sword
A young Viking boy receives his first sword but has no chance to use it until he joins a group sailing to newly-discovered Vineland.