The Illustrated Companion to Nelson's Navy: A Guide to the Fiction of the Napoleonic Wars - Rilegato

Blake, Nicholas; Lawrence, Richard Russell

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1861760906 ISBN 13: 9781861760906

Casa editrice: Chatham Publishing, 2000

Riassunto

No other period of history has spawned such a huge fictional oeuvre as the Nelsonic era - Marryat, Forester, Pope, Kent, O'Brian and Donachie are just some of the authors whose heroics are portrayed as sailors in the Royal Navy. Their exploits have fascinated readers in countries all around the world but for many of them the real world of Nelson's navy is a closed book. This book describes in detail every aspect of the navy of that period and seeks to relate it to the novels that are based on its operations and feats in battle. The workings of the admiralty, the design and building of the ships, life on board, food and drink, entertainment, discipline, medicine, fighting tactics, gunnery, seamanship and shiphandling, and merchant fleets and opposing navies are described and explained in succinct texts and illustrated with over 5000 commissioned sketches, maps and diagrams as well as four-colour artwork; throughout there are cross-references to the novels inspired by this great fighting force.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Chatham Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1861760906
• ISBN 13: 9781861760906
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 208