An historical companion to the naval world of Patrick O'Brian.

Written by one of the foremost historians of Nelson's navy and the age of sail, Jack Aubrey Commands relates the naval fiction of Patrick O'Brian and C S Forester to the real world inhabited by famous Royal Navy heroes such as Lord Nelson, Sir Sidney Smith and Thomas Cochrane.

Fully illustrated in colour with contemporary plans, drawings, engravings and maps, Lavery explores the historical fact behind the grand narrative and fully contextualises a number of key naval, fictional episodes as well as the minutiae of naval life in the era of Nelson and Napoleon, as it is put forward in the enduring sea stories of Patrick O'Brian and others.

Author: Brian Lavery

120 illustrations, 70 in colour
192 pages
March 2004
270 x 200 mm
Hardback

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