“Nobody describes a naval battle better than Taylor . . . a flawless demonstration of the biographer’s craft.”—Jan Morris, GuardianMore
An incomparable seaman, ferociously combative yet chivalrous, Edward Pellew might have served as the model for Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey.More
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