HEART OF OAK, A Sailor's Life in Nelson's Navy,
by James P McGuane
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
W W Norton, Fifth Avenue, New York - 2002 hardcover, 26cms x 28½cms [10¼" x 11¼"], with dust jacket & protective covering VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket In small museums along the English coast, and in private collections, James McGuane has recorded artifacts recovered from ship-wrecks and preserved by modern conservation techniques. Taken together, these unique treasures provide a window onto the everyday life of sailors and officers in the Royal Navy of the Napoleonoc era. In this book we are rewarded with moments frozen in time: tools, clothing, utensils, weapons, and fragments of the ship itself startlingly intact. These photographs bring home to the reader - as words alone cannot - what a sailor's life in that time was really like. Book includes over 250 colour photographs. Outstanding publication!
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- Bookseller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41880
- Title
- HEART OF OAK, A Sailor's Life in Nelson's Navy,
- Author
- James P McGuane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, 26cms x 28½cms [10¼" x 11¼"], with dust jacket & protective covering
- Book Condition
- Used - VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- W W Norton, Fifth Avenue, New York -
- Date Published
- 2002
- Pages
- 192 pages
- Keywords
- Military History Lord Nelson Royal Nany Napoleonic Wars Sails Rigging Deckgear Gunpowder Tar Grape Shot Small Arms
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