Commander: The Life and Exploits of Britain's Greatest Frigate Captain

Taylor, Stephen

ISBN 10: 0393071642 / ISBN 13: 9780393071641

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012

Beschreibung

Near fine copy in hardcover with fine jacket. Light crease at fore-edge of page 199/200.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 036552

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Commander: The Life and Exploits of Britain's Greatest Frigate Captain
• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0393071642
• ISBN-13: 9780393071641
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Near Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • British History

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Inhaltsangabe

Edward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest British frigate captain in the age of sail. Left fatherless at age eight, with a penniless mother and five siblings, Pellew fought his way from the very bottom of the navy to fleet command. Victories and eye-catching feats won him a public following. Yet he had a gift for antagonizing his better-born peers, and he made powerful enemies. Redemption came with his last command, when he set off to do battle with the Barbary States and free thousands of European slaves. Opinion held this to be an impossible mission, and Pellew himself, leading from the front in the style of his contemporary Nelson, did not expect to survive.Pellew s humanity, fondness for subordinates, and blind love for his family, and the warmth and intimacy of his letters, make him a hugely engaging figure. Stephen Taylor gives him at last the biography he deserves.

Críticas

Meticulous archival research vividly presents a real-life hero whose deeds provided material for C.S. Forester s Horatio Hornblower and Patrick O Brian s Jack Aubrey. "