Sea Fights and Adventures (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by John Knox Laughton

Overview

This 1901 volume provides an exciting and comprehensive overview of British sea power from the days of the Spanish galleons to the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812.  Along the way, Laughton focuses on privateers and buccaneers, as well as the lives of sailors both aboard ship and ashore.  

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411452411
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	05/03/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	370
File size:	295 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

John Knox Laughton (1830-1915) was a pioneering British naval historian and biographer.  He was influential not only in his own right but through the historians he trained.  Knighted in 1907, Laughton’s best-known works are Studies in Naval History (1887), Nelson and his Companions in Arms (1896), and Sea Fights and Adventures (1901).