Heart of Oak : A survey of British Sea Power in the Georgian era / G.J. Marcus

United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 1975

Hardback

The years 1714 to 1830 saw the greatest period of the sailing Navy of Britain. Heart of Oak deals with different aspects of Britain's naval strength: materials and ship-building; strategical and tactical skill; seamanship and navigation; the personnel of the service, both officers and seamen; the intimate connection between seaborne commerce and sea power; and the human side of naval life on board and ashore, including seamen's songs and recreations. Based on sound and wide-ranging knowledge, but not encumbered with scholarly apparatus, this is a book which the general reader will enjoy, and from which the student and scholar can profit.

0192158120

359.00941

English

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