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From: Andrés Ruiz
Date: 2010 Mar 22, 11:17 +0100
I have pushed the send button too
soon…
There is a good book “Cape
Trafalgar” about the battle of Trafalgar under the Spanish point of view
by Arturo Perez Reverte, he is very critical about the decadence of the Spanish
empire. Before he become a novelist he worked as a war reporter and is a sailor
and a sea enthusiast, So the book is very well documented in these two aspects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_P%C3%A9rez-Reverte
Regards,
--
Andrés Ruiz
Navigational Algorithms
http://sites.google.com/site/navigationalalgorithms/
De:
Enviado el: lunes, 22 de marzo de
2010 11:00
Para: '
Asunto: Re: Basque Country XIX
Century and Novels of C.S. Forester
Another basque mariner, died in the battle of
Trafalgar
Churruca in his ship of the line San Juan Nepomuceno
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosme_Dami%C3%A1n_de_Churruca_y_Elorza
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_ship_San_Juan_Nepomuceno_(1765)
De:
navlist-bounce@fer3.com [mailto:navlist-bounce@fer3.com] En nombre de Michael Bradley
Enviado el: viernes, 19 de marzo
de 2010 17:06
Para: NavList@fer3.com
Asunto: [NavList] Re: Basque
Country XIX Century and Novels of C.S. Forester
Max
Adam's book 'Admiral Collingwood: Nelson's own hero' is a biography of a man
who was absolutely pivotal before, during, and after the battle of Trafalgar
and in suppport of the Spanish of Cadiz in 1808 against the French, and leading
up to the Peninsular War which followed.
IMHO the book reads better than many novels, and Collingwood himself was the
ultimate talented, unpretentious, humane, professional mariner and leader.
And he hailed from hereabouts, just a daylight sail north of Cook's birthplace
...
Copies of Max Adam's various books on Collingwood are currently available
through Amazon or abebooks on both sides of the
Michael
Bradley
55 North