Word: galleass
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...fans a rich dust of authenticity over his scenes. In The Black Swan and The Sea Hawk, when a sailing ship fires off a broadside, Sabatini draws on his vast vocabulary of sailor latin to inform the reader that a battery of sakers on the gun deck of a galleass is bombarding a galliot with langrel that has collapsed its topgallants and smashed a few slush lamps. He is just as sure-footed ashore. When Sabatini finishes describing Captain Blood's hangout, the pirate fortress at Tortuga, any attentive reader could build a scale model in his basement, right...
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