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Jack Tar - Life in Nelson's Navy (Paperback, Digital original)
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Jack Tar - Life in Nelson's Navy (Paperback, Digital original)
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List price R396
Loot Price R332
Discovery Miles 3 320
You Save R64 (16%)
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The Royal Navy to which Admiral Lord Nelson sacrificed his life
depended on thousands of sailors and marines to man the great
wind-powered wooden warships. Drawn from all over Britain and
beyond, often unwillingly, these ordinary men made the navy
invincible through skill, courage and sheer determination. They
cast a long shadow, with millions of their descendants alive today,
and many of their everyday expressions, such as 'skyscraper' and
'loose cannon', continuing to enrich our language. Yet their
contribution is frequently overlooked, while the officers became
celebrities. JACK TAR gives these forgotten men a voice in an
exciting, enthralling, often unexpected and always entertaining
picture of what their life was really like during this age of sail.
Through personal letters, diaries and other manuscripts, the
emotions and experiences of these people are explored, from the
dread of press-gangs, shipwreck and disease, to the exhilaration of
battle, grog, prize money and prostitutes. JACK TAR is an
authoritative and gripping account that will be compulsive reading
for anyone wanting to discover the vibrant and sometimes stark
realities of this wooden world at war.
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