Ships' Miscellany: A Guide to the Royal Navy of Jack Aubrey

Ships' Miscellany is a guide to the navy of Patrick O'Brian's bestselling 'Aubrey-Maturin' novels. Packed with fascinating and arcane information, it contains thousands of details covering such topics as sails and rigging, food, rates of pay, armament and gunnery, crime and punishment, actions at sea, phrases and expressions, historical snippets and oddities, and a hundre other fascinating pieces of information. Decorated with line illustrations, some of them contemporary, this compact book demonstrates that even today we retain a wealth of expressions that derive directly from the Royal Navy of Jack Aubrey's time, while at the same time provides a perfect guide to the subject and its long - and unrivalled - history.