{"product_id":"9780140167382-secondhand-nelson-a-personal-history","title":"Nelson: A Personal History","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition.  See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only.  A description of our secondhand books is not always available.  Please contact  us if you have a question about this title.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Christopher Hibbert\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 496\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHoratio Nelson was a national hero who secured a century of maritime supremacy for his country and became the focus of British identity and aspiration. Generous and brave, sometimes vain and occasionally weak, he is still the butt of half-admiring jokes: bawdy when his name is coupled with that of Emma Hamilton; respectful in relation to his great naval achievements. Christopher Hibbert creates an immensely human portrait of the man - at once humble yet ambitious, kind but at times irritable, exceptionally lovable and yet often vain and self-pitying, unswerving in his sense of professional duty but unfaithful to his wife in one tremendous love affair. And he evokes, as well, a remarkable sense of what it was to sail the seas in Nelson's day, in peace and war. The great battles of St Vincent, the Nile and Copenhagan spring vividly to life, as do the achievements of the British blockading fleet off the French coast in the months and years before the victory of Trafalgar - a victory so decisive and so devastating that it put an end to war at sea for a century.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43955127550171,"sku":"9780140167382-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9780140167382-us-300.jpg?v=1676250128","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780140167382-secondhand-nelson-a-personal-history","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}