Patrick O'Brian's historical novels (the Aubrey-Maturin series) contain occasional references to navigation in the Royal Navy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Has a member of NavList examined these books to determine whether O'Brian's portrayal of navigation is historically and technically correct?
Some years ago, I read the twenty novels in this series as well as the unfinished twenty-first manuscript, but, at that time, I did not pay sufficient attention to how O'Brien described navigation.
