Eyes of the Fleet - Softcover

Price, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0586213937 ISBN 13: 9780586213933

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992

Synopsis

Spine fadede, some foxing to tanned page edges . Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

About this title

From Library Journal:

In his first nonfiction effort, novelist Price (Here Be Monsters, LJ 5/15/86) offers us a wonderful popular history of the British Navy in its golden years. In format, the text details six naval encounters of famous captains (five actual captains and C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower). By the end of the book, the reader is given a fine summary of the evolution of a frigate (a fast, powerful, single-deck warship), naval officer background and advancement, life aboard ship, mutiny, actual battle, and political intrigue. The volume contains portraits and paintings of famous frigate battles. Readers seeking more information on the subject should consult Michael Lewis's A Social History of the Navy, 1793-1815 (1954) and Byron Lavery's The Line of Battle: The Sailing Warship, 1650-1840 (Naval Inst., 1992). This small, well-written volume would make a fine addition to public library collections.?Richard S. Nowicki, Emerson Vocational H.S., Buffalo, N.Y.
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About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0586213937
• ISBN 13: 9780586213933
• Binding: Paperback