Cochrane
Subtitle: The Life and Exploits of a Fighting Captain
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: November 9, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780786709236
Subjects: Biography: general; Biography: historical; Military life & institutions; Military; Historical - British; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Maritime History; Biography & Autobiography / Military; Historical - General
First sentence: Left in the unaccustomed peace and solitude of his prison lodgings, as Thomas Cochrane's racing thoughts became reconciled to his predicament, a particular memory came flooding back: of his arrival as a tall and gangling seventeen-year-old aboard a navy ship - the Hind, a small armed schooner based at Plymouth, nearly twenty-one years before to the day, on 27 June 1793.