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The Captain
The story of a Hollander, escaped from the Nazis, who becomes captain of a Dutch tug assigned to convoy duty on the perilous Murmansk run. Dangers of the sea are complicated for the captain by an emotional involvement with the widow of his liaison officer and also by a challenge that confronts him as he is revolted by the needless slaughter of war.
The Inspector
Dutch police inspector, shortly after the second World War, dedicates himself to smuggling a young Jewish girl into Palestine. A modern morality tale.
The Peculiar People
As the Civil War approaches, a quiet Quaker community struggles to uphold its peaceful existence amidst bitter national debates about slavery and the treatment of American Indians.
The Distant Shore
Dutch seaman becomes captain of British tugboat in World War.
A View of the Ocean
The internationally best-selling novelist, playwright Jan de Hartog, author of The Captain and The Peaceable Kingdom, moves and inspires us with this simple, elegant story of his mother and himself. She was a quiet, unassuming woman married to a giant of a man, a famous Protestant theologian and pastor, simple, bighearted and big-muscled, who moved through life with gusto and the commotion of a wagon train and who, but for God, might have become a pirate or a general. He adored his wife and didn’t like anyone else around to claim her attention. Their sons saw him as a monster of egocentricity, a tyrant, a blustering bully; to her he was a sensitive, shy, helpless man with a mission. She be...
The Spiral Road
Novel relating the present and past of a group of men and women, doctors and missionaries, working in the jungles of Borneo.
The Star of Peace
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A Sailor's Life
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