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The Real Master and Commander
Bloomsbury Publishing
September 2007
On Sale: September 18, 2007
448 pages
ISBN: 1582345341
EAN: 9781582345345
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Nicknamed le loup des mers (“the sea wolf”) by Napoleon,
Thomas Cochrane was one of the most daring and successful
naval heroes of all time. In this fascinating account of
Cochrane’s life, David Cordingly, author of the bestselling
Under the Black Flag and The Billy Ruffian, unearths
startling new details about the real-life “Master and
Commander,” from his daring exploits against the French navy
to his role in the liberation of Chile, Peru, and Brazil,
and the shock exchange scandal that forced him out of
England and almost ended his naval career. Drawing on
previously unpublished papers, his own travels, wide
reading, and the kind of original research that
distinguished The Billy Ruffian, Cordingly tells the
rip-roaring story of the archetypal Romantic hero who
conquered the seas and, in the process, defined his era.
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