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As long as we're trashing Sobel, Patrick O'Brian also has been
trashed, not undeservedly, while E.F. Forrester has been praised.  In
Forrester's first Hornblower novel, the hero is praised for making a
perfect landfall from deep sea in Nicaragua.  Unfortunately, this
would have been relatively simple even in those days as one would
only have to run down the latitude toward that N-S oriented, more or
less, coast.  The novel implies he was not running down the latitude,
but rather from a fix, on a diagonal, which would have required a
longitude.  But Forrester exaggerates a bit here, I believe.

Fred

   

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