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A Nelson Companion: A Guide to The Royal Navy of Jack Aubrey | 
 enlarge | Author: C. Maynard
Publisher: Michael O'Mara
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 300421
Format: Illustrated
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 127
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 1843171023
Dewey Decimal Number: 359
UPC: 800153001028
EAN: 9781843171027
ASIN: 1843171023
Publication Date: May 1, 2004
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Product Description
This concise yet detailed handbook provides the nautically inquisitive or historically minded reader with, arguably, everything he or she needs to know about the Royal Navy or Commander Jack Aubrey—protagonist of Patrick O' Brian's best selling series set during the era of the Napoleonic wars—and of Admiral Horatio Nelson, the greatest of all Britain's naval commanders. Decorated with line illustrations, many of them contemporary, and packed with detail, A Nelson Companion is an essential guide to the Royal Navy of Jack Aubrey's time, and its unrivalled history.
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Engaging reference on Lord Nelson's Royal Navy October 7, 2007
John McConnell (San Francisco, CA)
For anyone who enjoys the Lucky Jack Aubrey stories of Patrick O'Brian, this is a fine little reference. While there is no mention made of the exotically named nautical cuisine of the period (eg, "soused hog's face", or "drowned baby"), this little book appears to cover all else: Guns and gunnery, cabins and quarters, food and drink, nautical origins of common phrases, celestial navigation and dead reckoning, types of frigate, methods of recruitment and payment, discipline at sea, combat between men-of-war, prize money, and so on.
A brief, well-organized reference.
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