From ablation to Zelenka-a comprehensive guide to seafaring during the Napoleonic ageWhat is a sand-grouse, and where does it live? What are the medical properties of lignum vitae, and how did Stephen Maturin use it to repair his viola? Who is...
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From ablation to Zelenka-a comprehensive guide to seafaring during the Napoleonic ageWhat is a sand-grouse, and where does it live? What are the medical properties of lignum vitae, and how did Stephen Maturin use it to repair his viola? Who is Admiral Lord Keith, and why is his wife so friendly with Captain Jack Aubrey? More than any other contemporary author, Patrick O'Brian knew the past. His twenty Aubrey-Maturin novels, beginning with 1969's Master and Commander, are distinguished by deep characterization, heart-stopping naval combat, and an attention to detail that enriches and enlivens h
Cover; Title Page; A Note on the Third Edition; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface to the Second Edition by Dean King; Foreword by Dean King; The Royal Navy During the War of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic War by John B. Hattendorf; King, Cabinet, and Parliament; The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty; The Admiralty Office; The Navy Board; The Ordnance Board; The Size of the Navy; Ships and Tactics; The Royal Dockyards and Ropeyards; Sea Officers: Commissioned and Warrant; Daily Life on a Warship; An Overview of the War of the French Revolution
The War of the First Coalition, 1793-1798The War of the Second Coalition, 1799-1801; The Peace of Amiens, 1802-1803; An Overview of the Napoleonic War; The War of the Third Coalition, 1805; The Fourth Coalition, 1806-1807, and the Naval War After Trafalgar; The Fifth Coalition, 1809; The Peninsular War, 1807-1814; The War of 1812, 1812-1815; The War of the Sixth Coalition, 1812-1814; The War of the Seventh Coalition, 1815; Stephen Maturin and Naval Medicine in the Age of Sail by J. Worth Estes; Doctors and the Royal Navy; Serving at Sea; Serving on Board Hospital Ships or at Hospitals
The Disease Burden of the Royal NavyThe Medicine Chest; Trauma and Surgery; What Good Could Dr. Maturin''s Medicine Do?; Maps, Types of Sailing Ships, Ship Diagrams, and a Warship''s Boats; The Alphabetical Lexicon to the Aubrey-Maturin Novels, with Biographies of Historical Figures, Battle Accounts, and Foreign Words and Phrases; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; Appendix: A Time Line of the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812, and the Fight for Independence in Chile; Selected Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Copyright
