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Sea Fights and Adventures (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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By John Knox Laughton

Formats and Prices

On Sale
May 3, 2011
Page Count
370 pages
Publisher
BookAnnex
ISBN-13
9781411452411

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$1.99

Price

$2.99 CAD

Format

ebook (Digital original)

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ebook (Digital original) $1.99 $2.99 CAD

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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.  


John Knox Laughton

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). 

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