The author is indebted to the Association of North Sea Societies and the Stavanger Maritime Museum for permission to draw on material used in the author's essay 'Shipboard Life in the Georgian Navy, 1750—1800; the Decline of the Old Order?', which appeared in The North Sea: Twelve Essays on Social History of Maritime Labour, ed by Lewis R. Fischer and others (Stavanger: 1992)
This essay is taken from
Patrick O'Brian, Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography,
edited by A E Cunningham, and is reprinted here
by kind permission of the British Library
Table of Contents
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
The Naval World of Jack Aubrey