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

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.[1] It was published in 1974.

Men-of-War: Life in Nelson's Navy
First American Edition 1995
AuthorPatrick O'Brian
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SubjectLife in the eighteenth-century Royal Navy
GenreNon-fiction
Set inSabon
PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
Media typePrint
Pages95
ISBN0-393-32660-8

Reception

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

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