A thorough seaman
Subtitle: the ships' logs of Horatio Nelson's early voyages imaginatively explored
By: Pauline Hunter Blair.
Publisher: Church Farm House Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805 -- Fiction.; Seafaring life -- Fiction.; Sailing ships -- Fiction.; Sailors -- Fiction.; Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 18th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-211).
Sequel to The Nelson boy.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter One Sheerness and the Nore; title: Chapter Two The Mary Ann; title: Chapter Three 'a practical seaman, with a horror of the; title: royal navy'; title: Chapter Four 'Thus by degrees I became a good; title: pilotfrom Chatham to the Tower of; title: London'; title: Chapter Five The Killing of Edward Smith; title: Chapter Six Towards the North Pole 'under that; title: good man Captain Lutwidge.'; title: Chapter Seven 'I exerted myself to have the command; title: of a four-oared cutter '; title: Chapter Eight '1 found that a squadron was fitting out; title: for the East Indies'; title: Chapter Nine 'I was placed in the Seahorsewith Captain; title: Farmer'; title: Chapter Ten 'and watched in the foretop'; title: Chapter Eleven 'Ivisited almost every part of the East; title: Indies'; title: Chapter Twelve 'from Bengal to Bussorah'; title: Chapter Thirteen 'in time I was placed on the quarter-; title: deck'; title: Chapter Fourteen 'Ill health induced Sir Edward; title: Hughesto send me to England'; title: Chapter Fifteen 'in the Dolphinwith Captain James; title: Pigot, whose kindness at that time saved; title: my life.'; title: Chapter Sixteen 'The spirit of Nelson revived'; title: Bibliography.