Edgar Vincent
Autor/a de Nelson: Love and Fame
Sobre l'autor
Edgar Vincent entered the Royal Navy after graduating from Oxford and served briefly in the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Theseus, a namesake of the 74-gun ship-of-the-line that fought at the Battle of the Nile. For many years he worked for ICI, and later as a head-hunter and management consultant. A mostra'n més lifetime student of Nelson, Vincent is a member of the Society for Nautical Research, the Navy Records Society, the 1805 Club and the Nelson Society mostra'n menys
Obres de Edgar Vincent
A Handbook to Modern Greek 2 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Educació
- University of Oxford (St Catherine's College)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Best Biographies (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 4
- Membres
- 200
- Popularitat
- #110,008
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 2
- ISBN
- 6
With all this in mind, as well as the mountain of minutiae that the author asks us to plow through, somehow this book did manage to arouse something like interest in me. Perhaps the very detail of it produces a sort of virtual reality/total immersion effect. Despite the many pages devoted to his squabbles with printers about semicolons, the menus, the wine lists, the querulous academic arguments about verb declensions, and his voluminous correspondence, the author manages to make this book far from the dullest book I've ever read. Faint praise perhaps, and I'd find it difficult to recommend as recreational reading, but I'm glad I spent the time on it.… (més)