Portsmouth Point

The British Navy in Fiction, 1793–1815

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C.Northcote Parkinson

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Paperback / softback

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Originally published in 1949, Portsmouth Point: The British Navy in Fiction, 1793-1815 is a captivating look into the naval experience during the Napoleonic wars. The author, C.N. Parkinson, uses excerpts from the writings of real officers, midshipman and crew members during the late 18th and early 19th centuries to create a semi-fictitious collection of naval stories. The dialogue, characters, and events within the book are not historical fact, but as Parkinson writes in the preface, a truly good novelist “writes boldly the sort of talk there might have been and so creates— as compared with the biographer— an impression more vivid, and in a sense, more true.”

Author Biography:

Cyril Northcote Parkinson pursued a distinguished academic career on both sides of the Atlantic and first became famous for "Parkinson's law" that work expands to fill the time allotted to it. Parkinson wrote many books on British politics and economics. His first fictional effort, a "biography" of Horatio Hornblower, met with considerable acclaim and led to the Richard Delancey series. C. Northcote Parkinson died in 1993.

Release date Australia

April 2nd, 2024

Author

C.Northcote Parkinson

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

168

Dimensions

128x197x17

ISBN-13

9781590138069

Product ID

31123637

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