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Dan,

I was just reporting what I've seen in passing here; a comment about
a month ago about Forrester having nice navigation and O'Brian not,
or perhaps more in reference to ship handling.  I didn't notice it
myself in O'Brians novels, although I read most before I took up
celestial navigation.

I very much enjoyed O'Brian's novels and recommend them highly.

Fred

On Apr 28, 2006, at 4:43 PM, Dan Allen wrote:

>
> On 28 Apr 2006, at 10:44 AM, Philip Lange wrote:
>
>> I missed all the discussion on Patrick O'Brian. I checked the
>> archives and a search for  "Patrick O'Brian""O'Brian" fails to
>> show any results. Any one have a synopsis of his gaffs and errors?
>
> My archive shows a thread that began Feb 13, 2004.  It had to do
> with the ship carrying a large telescope to observe Jupiter's
> moons.  O'Brian did not really get trashed, however.
>
> I think Patrick O'Brian is an excellent author, and quite close to
> historical fact virtually all the time.  He did an enormous amount
> of research to ensure the same.
>
> Fred Hubard: could you expound on why you think O'Brian deserves
> trashing?
>
> Dan
>

   

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