Touch and Go Author:C. Northcote Parkinson "Danger and daring in the exotic Far East! — As the eighteenth cenury slips into the nineteenth, England is still at war with France. Richard Delancey, newly promoted to captain, arrives in the Mediterranean to command a small sloop-of-war and sails into a series of do-or-die adventures that leaves the enemy reeling. ..Capturing glory and prize m... more »oney along the way, he molds his shipmates into what is, man for man, the best seagoing crew in the Royal British Navy."« less