16732 About Austen Fans Bucknell University Press/Rowman & Littlefield

Bucknell University Press/Rowman & Littlefield

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Adam Smith

Contains feminist views and revolutionary ideas for the times

Everyman's Library

16732 About Austen Fans Bucknell University Press/Rowman & LittlefieldWhen Napoleon eventually died in exile, the Lords of the Admiralty ordered the original dispatches from seven major fleet battles be gathered and presented to the nation. Letters written home during the war by admirals, captains, surgeons, boatswains, were bound in an immense volume. Naval historian Willis stumbled across this mostly forgotten collection in the British Library in 2010. Here he publishes selections of the material against a backdrop of