Alexandra Brown
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Can anyone direct me to a 'glossary of naval terms' to help me get through this book and other written by Patrick O'Brian? I want to read all 22 but have been put off by the storm of words foreign to me in the story.
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Lynn
Patrick O'Brian's Navy: The Illustrated Companion to Jack Aubrey's World by Richard O'Neill and The Patrick O'Brian Muster Book: Persons, Animals, Ships and Cannon in the Aubrey-Maturin Sea Novels by Anthony Gary Brown. Also, A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion to the Complete Seafaring Tales of Patrick O'Brian by Dean King.
Judith
And A Sea of Words...King, again, I think. Very helpful.
Pippin
see this post:
http://www.wwnorton.com/pob/vol3ii.ht...
there are three sections - alphabetically ordered.
http://www.wwnorton.com/pob/vol3ii.ht...
there are three sections - alphabetically ordered.
Paul Bradley
This is where kindle really shines
Andrea
There's a great naval dictionary called Nautical Terms by Lenfesty. I purchased it for this reason precisely!
Reid
There's always wikipedia!
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