This detailed handbook gives you everything you need to know to follow your favorite sailing historical characters (Nelson, Cochrane, Frank or Charles Austen) or fictional characters (Aubrey, Hornblower, Wentworth).  Learn about the ships, rigging, quarters, rations, discipline, entertainment, officers and seamen, navigation, hazards, medicine, women at sea, weaponry and combat. Contemporary illustrations. Very clean, very good condition with very good/fine jacket. Michael O'Mara Books Limited. 2004. Hb, Dj. USED. $15.00