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Stories Set in Portsmouth
Dockyard masts and naval history stacked to the sky: Portsmouth is where Britain kept its wooden walls and steel successors. Sea stories are the only stories here. Hornblower sailed from these docks; Between Two Worlds shipped out from them. Open Portsmouth on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 2 books and 2 movies set in Portsmouth.
Between Two Worlds
Marianne Winckler relocates to the port city of Caen in order to pass herself off as a member of a large community of itinerant workers desperate to make ends meet. She gains employment as a cleaner on a ferry…
Hornblower: The Even Chance
Portsmouth 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblower takes the first tentative steps of his naval career but a feud with a shipmate causes complications.
Heartstone
Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong. Meanwhile Matthew Shardlake is given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr. He is asked to investigate…
Hitch 22: A Memoir
Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the U.S. war…
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