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Nelson : a personal history / Christopher Hibbert

By:

Hibbert, Christopher, , 1942-

Publication details: Reading, MA : Addison-Wesley , c1994.Description: xvii, 472 p., [32] p. of plates : geneal. table, ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN:

9780201624571

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DDC classification:

92 NEL

Summary: An absorbing biography of the "great and gallant" Horatio Nelson, the one-eyed, one-armed sailor who caught the imagination of late 18th century England and gained immortal fame by dying heroically at the Battle of Trafalgar. Hibbert illuminates, among other things, Nelson's personality, his personal and political friendships, his relationship with Sir William Hamilton, and his passionate love affair with Hamilton's wife, Emma, revealing the man in all of his faults and virtues. Well-illustrated, including a few color plates.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [444]-453) and index.

An absorbing biography of the "great and gallant" Horatio Nelson, the one-eyed, one-armed sailor who caught the imagination of late 18th century England and gained immortal fame by dying heroically at the Battle of Trafalgar. Hibbert illuminates, among other things, Nelson's personality, his personal and political friendships, his relationship with Sir William Hamilton, and his passionate love affair with Hamilton's wife, Emma, revealing the man in all of his faults and virtues. Well-illustrated, including a few color plates.

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