On a Making Tide

by David Donachie

Overview

A chronicle of the fascinating early years of Horatio Nelson and Emma Lyon. Both determined to rise from obscurity, they set about making their ways through the world with corresponding recklessness and precocious ambition. Nelson enters the Royal Navy at the age of twelve and is made post captain at the age of twenty. Emma, luscious but penniless, cannily confronts her limited prospects to rise through the social ranks from teenaged bawd to noblemen's courtesan to celebrated artist's model. Rich in historical detail, this novel offers authentic sea action and a rare peek into London's demimonde, where the lives of a beautiful courtesan and Britain's greatest naval hero collide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590130414
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	10/01/2003
Series:	The Nelson and Emma Trilogy , #1
Edition description:	None ed.
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.23(d)

About the Author

David Donachie (1944–2023) was born in Edinburgh. He always had an abiding interest in military history, including ancient Rome, the Middle Ages, the British navy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the clandestine services during the Second World War. He had more than fifty published novels to his credit, with over a million combined sales. David lived in Deal, the historic English seaport on the border of the English Channel and the North Sea.

Editorial Reviews

Pure adventure with excitement and daring all the way. .. historical fiction at its very best.

Historical Novels Review Online

Exciting and unpredictable.

The Bookbag

High adventure and detection; cunningly spliced battle scenes which reek of blood and brine; excitements on terra firma to match.

Literary Review

High-speed epic from an ace storyteller.

Daily Sport

Outflanking and out-gunning C. S. Forester.

Cambridge Evening News

"A compelling read and a probing exposition of the workings of the British navy in the late 18th century."  —Edward Cline, author, The Sparrowhawk series



"Donachie has a masterful way of creating atmosphere and character . . . stunning impact."  —Kent Messenger

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