Paperback. Tiny pen dot to edge. Introduction by Michael Nash. These remarkable memoirs of a naval lieutenant who served during the Napoleonic wars were first published in 1843; and wehat makes them so unusual is the combination of a particularly eventful career with a powerful nattative style equal to the great events he witnessed. The historical interest centres on his association with Nelson, especially the much-criticised years at the corrupt court of Naples where Parsons, an acute and independent observer, sheds fascinating light on many of the protagonists; writing at a time when Lady Hamilton's reputation was it its nadir, Parsons reveals how the Divine Emma captivated the officers (or at least the junior officers) of the whole fleet. Of the great events he writes with verve, and his description of the capture of the Genereux is as good as anything in sea fiction. There is also nor shortage of humerous observations - Sir Sidney Smith lived on a diet of rats while aboard Parson's ship. For anyone whose interest in the period has been whetted by the fiction of Patrick O'Brian, this is the real-life equivalent. 188 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

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Titel

Nelsonian Reminiscences. Leaves From Memory's Log. A Dramatic Eye-Witness Account of the War at Sea 1795-1810

Verlag

Chatham Publishing, London England

Erscheinungsjahr

1998

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

1861760841

ISBN-13

9781861760845

Einband

Soft cover

Auflage

1st Chatham Publishing

Zustand

Very Good

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This title was originally published as a series of obscure articles in 1843, entitled "Leaves from Memory's Log" and then collected together by WH Long in 1905. The historical interest centres on Parson's association with Nelson, and the hero's years at the corrupt court of Naples.

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The memoirs of William Spavens are not only significant for nautical and military history, but are nearly unique in world literature. Narratives by ordinary people, sailors or otherwise, are very rare for this period. Spavens served under Admirals Anson and Hawke, and provides accounts of the major naval battles of the mid-18th century, the life of an ordinary person serving at sea, and the many places around the world which he visited in the course of his career.

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