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Men of War: Life in Nelson's Navy

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print

ISBN
  
0-393-32660-8

Page count
  
95

Publisher
  
W. W. Norton & Company

Set in
  
Sabon

Pages
  
95

Author
  
Patrick O'Brian

Genre
  
Non-fiction

Country
  
United Kingdom

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Subject
  
Life in the eighteenth-century Royal Navy

Similar
  
Patrick O'Brian books, United States Navy books

Men-of-War: Life in Nelson's Navy by Patrick O'Brian is a short, small-format 12.7 cm × 17.6 cm × 0.8 cm (5.00 in × 6.93 in × 0.31 in), concise, well illustrated introduction to life aboard the ships of the Royal Navy during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; the period in which the author's acclaimed Aubrey–Maturin series of novels is set.

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Reception

The book received mixed reviews with some considering its conciseness a virtue, particularly for a younger audience, while others felt it was lightweight and an attempt to cash in on the author's reputation.

Publication history

  • First published in hardcover in the UK in 1974.
  • First paperback US edition published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1995.
  • An audiobook was published by ISIS Audiobooks in 2007, combined with the last book in the Aubrey–Maturin series; The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey.

    • References

    Men-of-War: Life in Nelson's Navy Wikipedia
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