The Wooden World An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy [Paperback]

Meticulously researched, Rodger's portrait draws the reader into this fascinatingly complex world with vivid, entertaining characters and full details of life below the decks.[Rodger] provides the reader with the most authoritative and enjoyable text on the subject that can be imagined.From the award-winning naval scholar N. A. M. Rodger comes the most revealing account yet of the mighty Georgian navy and British naval society of the eighteenth century.