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The Wooden World
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Full Title:
The Wooden World
Contributors:
By (Author) N. A. M. Roger
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:
Fontana Press
Publication Date:
3rd June 1988
UK Publication Date:
31st March 1998
Country:
United Kingdom
Classifications
Readership:
General
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Naval forces and warfare
Dewey:
359.00941
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
448
Weight:
294g
Author Bio
N. A. M. Rodger is Anderson Fellow of the National Maritime Museum. He is the author of the magnificent The Wooden World, a history of the British navy in the 18th century, The Admiralty, chosen by the US Naval Institute as one of the best books of 1980, and the biographer of the Earl of Sandwich. He has contributed papers on naval history to journals in Britain and France, one of which was awarded the Corbett Prize for naval history in 1982.
