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ISBN: 0393047490

ISBN13: 9780393047493

Heart of Oak: A Sailor's Life in Nelson's Navy

Name: THANK YOU James McGuane!!
Item: Heart of Oak: A Sailor&#39;s Life in Nelson&#39;s Navy
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Book Overview

The extraordinary photography in this book was inspired by the author's reading of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels. In small museums along the English coast, and in private collections, James McGuane has recorded artifacts recovered from shipwrecks 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 Napoleonic era. Thanks to advances in marine archaeology, it is often possible to establish the exact identity of a wrecked warship, along with the date and circumstances of its sinking. We are thus provided with a moment 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. Also photographed here is Admiral Horatio Nelson's flagship HMS Victory, proudly preserved at Portsmouth. Victory survived the great fleet action at Trafalgar, where Nelson himself died, and it is still a commissioned ship in the Royal Navy.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0393047490

ISBN13:9780393047493

Release Date:November 2002

Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company

Length:192 Pages

Weight:2.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 10.2" x 11.3"

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Rated 5 stars
THANK YOU James McGuane!!

By Thriftbooks.com User, February 6, 2005

You've done history great service and truly inspired me. Publishers stamp out millions of cheaply rendered books and -- while most have "some redeeming features" -- only one in one-thousand is this inspired. The Queen should track you down and knight you!

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A Voyage of Discovery

By Thriftbooks.com User, December 24, 2002

Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey and Maturin novels are unsurpassed for their historical accuracy, their swashbuckling plots, and for piquing the desire of non-sailors (like me) to learn more about the nautical technology of the Napoleonic era. HEART OF OAK answers the need of the nautically-challenged for an illustrated glossary of this technology. But even better, it offers both the non-sailor and sailor alike an "insider's view"...

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What a wonderful gift!!!

By Thriftbooks.com User, December 12, 2002

I'm so glad I found this fabulous book for my husband who is a HUGE Patrick O'Brien fan. Not knowing much about naval history myself, I found myself immersed for an hour or so in this great, visual history book. The photographs are wonderful - the subject matter is by turns exciting, majestically beautiful, and sometimes a bit gruesome! - the writing is concise and leaves you wanting to learn more. I'm now inspired to hit...

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Rated 5 stars
A marvelous visual journey into Nelson's navy

By Thriftbooks.com User, November 5, 2002

James McGuane's "Heart of Oak" is a marvelous visual journey into, as the subtitle has it, "A Sailor's Life in Nelson's Navy". The book is filled with photographs of artifacts from British nautical museums (plus a number taken aboard HMS Victory and at other naval-related sites), pictures not of static, dead objects on dusty museum shelves, but photographs artfully dynamic, almost as if the tools portrayed were set down a...

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Rated 5 stars
Spectacular

By Thriftbooks.com User, September 27, 2002

The photography is absolutely beautiful. You are given an up close and personal look at this fascinating time in history. An absolutely gorgeous and well written book.

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