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postwar years concluding that " the navy in the mid-nineteenth century was not as positive as it could have been given the resources and talents available." In each chapter of this study the reader finds highly technical detail with photographs, illustrations and drawings that help to visualize this important period in US naval history. Yet the most interesting parts of this book are the anecdotal operational histories of individual ships. Together with volume one (The Old Steam Navy, Volume One: Frigates, Sloops, and Gunboats , 1815-1885, 1990), Canney's study of the old steam navy will long stand as the definitive history of a largely forgotten and hi storiographically neglected era in the history of the US Navy . HAROLD N. BOYER Aston, Pennsylvania
makes up the main body of the book, provides an excellent introduction on the use of sea language, removing much of the mystery that surrounds thi s subject for most people, while, if anything, enhancing its romantic aura. Thi s lexicon includes biographical sketches of the leading public figures of the day , so that if you find yourself wondering, for instance, who Addington was , you will find out not only that he was prime mini ster from 1801to1805, but also the main terms of the shortlived Treaty of Americans which he negotiated with Napoleon in 1802. PS
A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales by Dean King, with John B. Hattendorf and J. Worth Estes (Henry Holt&Co.,New YorkNY 1995 , 417pp, illus, appen, biblio, ISBN 0-8050-38124; $1 4pb) Des igned as a companion piece to Patrick O ' Brian 's immensely popular yarns of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin , an unlikely pair who sail together through Britain 's wars with the French Republic and Empire (17931815), thi s compendium makes an outstandingly useful passkey to the wooden world of Britain 's Royal Navy in the great age of sail. Thi s is the book you want when plagued by a question such as, how effective were "purging" and other medical remedies for seamen 's ailments (not very), or at what range would you use double-shotted gun s (500 yards or less), or whether a rear admiral of the red outranked a rear admiral of the white (he did) . These matters and others of the like are clearly and authoritatively set forth in introductory essays by John B. Hattendorf on naval practices and by J. Worth Estes on naval medicine of the period, and Dean King, author of the lexicon of words and phrases which
By Force of Arms, by James L. Nelson (Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster, New York NY, 1996, 336pp, ISBN 0-67151924-7; $12pb) They have always been a bookish bunch, the professional crew members aboard the Tall Ship Rose, so I was not particularly surprised when my then-third mate Jim Nelson announced during the summer of 1992 that he was "going to write a book." We had been marveling together at the opus of Patrick O'Brian and soon Nelson had a tiny word processor at which I could hear him pecking away in his cabin each night. Of By Force of Arms O'Brian has written: "In James Nelson we may welcome a newcomer to that very small and select band of men who have written about the sailing navy with a firsthand knowledge of the subject. ... When he says 'The backstay was as hard as an iron bar' he knows what he is talking about because he has grasped just such a backstay, and the same such authenticity runs throughout book , carrying total conviction: the roar of his seas, the quivering of his windward leach and the crash of green water coming aboard are not so many echoes of accounts by men long dead but hi s own living and vivid experience. Furthermore, he writes with the eagerness of a young man sailing his first command." Nel son 's first book deals with naval action in the years leading up to the American Revolution including fictionalized accounts of actions that involved
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