A Sea of Words

A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales

By: Dean King

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Paperback | 1 October 2000 | Edition Number 3

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This comprehensive lexicon provides definitions of nautical terms, historical entries describing the people and political events that shaped the period, and detailed explanations of the scientific, medical, and biblical references that appear in the novels.

About the Author

John B. Hattenborf is a professor of maritime history at the United States Naval War College. J. Worth Estes, Ph.D., is a professor of pharmacology at Boston University and a specialist in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century maritime medicine.

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To any disoriented lubber who needs to take a quick bearing on Aubrey's world of staysails and sternposts, it will be a useful compass. "The Economist" Dean King's lexicon will charm cultists. "The Philadelphia Inquirer" An outstandingly useful passkey to the wooden world of Britain's Royal Navy in the great age of sail. "Sea History" A gem of a book. "Minneapolis Star Tribune""

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List of Illustrations	p. xi
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xvii
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
The Royal Navy During the War of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic War	p. 1
King, Cabinet, and Parliament	p. 2
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty	p. 3
The Admiralty Office	p. 4
The Navy Board	p. 5
The Ordnance Board	p. 6
The Size of the Navy	p. 6
Ships and Tactics	p. 7
The Royal Dockyards and Ropeyards	p. 12
Sea Officers: Commissioned and Warrant	p. 13
Daily Life on a Warship	p. 17
An Overview of the War of the French Revolution	p. 20
The War of the First Coalition, 1793-1798	p. 21
The War of the Second Coalition, 1799-1801	p. 23
The Peace of Amiens, 1802-1803	p. 24
An Overview of the Napoleonic War	p. 24
The War of the Third Coalition, 1805	p. 25
The Fourth Coalition, 1806-1807, and the Naval War After Trafalgar	p. 26
The Fifth Coalition, 1809	p. 27
The Peninsular War, 1807-1814	p. 27
The War of 1812, 1812-1815	p. 28
The War of the Sixth Coalition, 1812-1814	p. 29
The War of the Seventh Coalition, 1815	p. 29
Stephen Maturin and Naval Medicine in the Age of Sail	p. 31
Doctors and the Royal Navy	p. 31
Serving at Sea	p. 33
Serving on Board Hospital Ships or at Hospitals	p. 36
The Disease Burden of the Royal Navy	p. 37
The Medicine Chest	p. 42
Trauma and Surgery	p. 44
What Good Could Dr. Maturin's Medicine Do?	p. 49
Maps, Types of Sailing Ships, Ship Diagrams, and a Warship's Boats	p. 51
The Alphabetical Lexicon to the Aubrey-Maturin Novels, with Biographies of Historical Figures, Battle Accounts, and Foreign Words and Phrases	p. 75
A Time Line of the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812, and the Fight for Independence in Chile	p. 483
Selected Bibliography	p. 499
About the Authors	p. 503
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