Ramage's Diamond

by Dudley Pope

Overview

“A haunting voyage through the peculiar—and peculiarly American—world of human skull collecting. Ann Fabian's remarkable and moving study illuminates as few other works have the powerful hold that the dead and their remains continue to have upon the living.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780935526899
Publisher:	McBooks Press
Publication date:	04/28/2001
Series:	Lord Ramage Novels Series
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	324,888
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Dudley Pope, a naval defense correspondent of the London Evening News, progressed to writing carefully researched naval history. C.S. Forester urged Pope to try his hand at fiction and saw the younger writer as his literary heir. Pope began what was to become an impressive series with Ramage (1965) and, over the next 24 years, produced 17 more novels tracing Lord Ramage's career. Pope died in 1997.

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Ann Fabian is dean of humanities and professor of American studies and history at Rutgers University. She is the author of many books, including, most recently, The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America.

Editorial Reviews

"All the verve and expertise of Forester."  —The Observer

"The first and still favourite rival to Hornblower."  —Daily Mirror

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