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Nelson's Navy in Fiction & Film
Sue Parrill, McFarland,
ISBN 978 0 7864 3855 6
Sue Parrill, a retired head of the English department at Southeastern
Louisiana University in the States has written an extremely comprehensive
guide to depictions of British sea power in the Napoleonic era.
The book provides summaries and analyses of more than 250 novels and nearly 30
films and also examines the extent to which they accurately reflect the
history, mores and manners of the period, as well as the technical seamanship details.
As well as a home reference the book will be a valuable addition to any public library |
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History of Seafaring
Donald Johnson and Juha Nurminen, Conway Maritime
ISBN 978 1844 860401
Conway Maritime is renowned for publication of books of
the highest quality in terms of scholarship and visual
presentation. “The History of
Seafaring”, however, sets a new standard. This
magnificent book, five years in the making, celebrates
two and a half millennia of man’s seaborne voyages from
the Phoenicians and Chinese up to modern times, and
features over 270 colour illustrations - manuscripts and
rutters, portolans and sea charts, ship's instruments
and artefacts, many never seen in print before.
The book was launched in splendid style at the Royal
Geographical Society. |
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Falconer's Marine
Dictionary William
Falconer, Cadell 1815 (Reprint Chatham Publishing)
ISBN 1861 762 046
One of the enduring classics that
have come down to us from Nelson's time, wonderfully recreated from the
original in its full detail. This is Burney's 1815 edition, the most
comprehensive and informative, tapping resources unavailable to Falconer
in 1769 to make this the definitive picture of Nelson's Navy at its apogee.
It contains marine technology, data on technical aspects of shipbuilding, fitting and
armaments, and the Navy's administrative and operational practices.
The work should without doubt be in the possession of every serious
student of the Royal Navy of the time. |
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Sea Charts of the British Isles
John Blake, Conway Maritime, ISBN 1 84486 024 8
Splendidly
evocative of Britain's sea inheritance, with details trawled from a
thousand years of colourful nautical history, this is a book to open the
eyes. Using the device of a circumnavigation, Blake shows how a mariner's perception of these shores has varied over the centuries, and
includes fascinating detail of the charts and instruments that have
contributed.
This wonderfully illustrated book
features rare and detailed charts from the ages which
will handsomely repay the armchair sailor poring over it with a magnifier. |
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The
Age of Sail : The International Annual of the Historic Sailing Ship -
Vol 1 & 2
Nicholas
Tracy, Conway Maritime,
ISBN 0851 779 255
Edited
by an eminent naval historian, the annuals aim to cover all aspects of maritime warfare from the sixteenth to the
mid-nineteenth century. With reviews, notes and original documents, the
volumes are a valuable resource for the enthusiast as well as the
more general reader. |
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Medicine Under Sail
By Zachary Friedenberg. Chatham. ISBN 1861 762 127
A fascinating account of the grim medical conditions - including diseases such as scurvy, beriberi, typhus, tropical fevers - that prevailed at sea - and how they were resolved.
The book also examines the influence of Nelson in bringing the medical revolution in controlling disease to the attention of the Admiralty. Nelson, of course, had a long history of ill health and
from an early age built a reputation for maintaining the health of his crew, even after having been at sea for periods of up to twenty months. |
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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
Edited by Peter Kemp, Oxford University Press ISBN 0 19 282084
An absorbing reference work of the sea and the men who sail on it. As well as biographies, descriptions of major naval events and famous ships, there are articles on navigation, shipbuilding - and many other aspects of the sea world. There are also a large number of drawings and line diagrams that amplify the text.
It is the sort of book you open to look something up, and then are drawn into many other interesting entries.
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The
Sea Chart : The Illustrated History of Nautical Maps and Navigational
Charts
John Blake, Conway Maritime,
ISBN 0851 779 45X
This
superbly presented book will appeal to serious students of
navigation as well as those interested in the documentation of man's
expansion across the globe. Part of its fascination for the reader lies
in the knowledge that these were the very charts pored over by anxious
mariners and learned geographers both, and professional seafarers will
certainly appreciate the great advances in navigation set out here. |
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Royal Dockyards
Philip MacDougall, Shire Books, ISBN 0 7478 0033 2
Britain's
royal dockyards have a tradition of shipbuilding stretching back
five hundred years. At one time they were the largest industrial
employer in the world. This inexpensive publication gives an absorbing
account of how the yards once performed their nationally vital tasks. |
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