The Wooden World
Synopsis
"This excellent book, both scholarly and readable, gives us a new approach to the eighteenth-century British Navy, which helps to explain its historic achievement and illuminates the society of which it was a characteristic and resounding expression throughout the world." A L. Rowse
"A deeply satisfying book firmly based on new evidence but highly readable, it is enlivened by a multitude of startling and hilarious incidents, recounted with style and wit, and a whole gallery of amazing characters." John Ken\on, [London] Observer
"The fullest, brightest, and altogether most readable picture that I know of the Royal Navy that beat the Spanish and French navies in the Seven Years' War." Richard Hough, [London] Daily Telegraph
- Copyright:
- 1986 N. A. M. Rodger
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- 2006-01-06T05:08:15Z
- Language:
- English
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- This is a copyrighted book.