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Seize the Fire
por Nicolson, Adam
- Usado
- Capa dura
- Condição
- VG+/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0060753617
- ISBN 13
- 9780060753610
- Livreiro
-
Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
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Sobre este item
Dust-jacket is a colourful 6-section panorama of the ships involved in the Battle of Trafalgar. "The author takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805, and uses it to examine out idea of heroism and the heroic. Is violence a necessary aspect of the hero? And daring? Why did the cult of the hero flower in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in a way it hadn't for two hundred years? Includes 16 pp. of colour paintings of the combatants and their interaction. Decorated endpapers.
Sinopse
In Seize the Fire, Adam Nicolson, author of the widely acclaimed God's Secretaries, takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic. Is violence a necessary aspect of the hero? And daring? Why did the cult of the hero flower in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in a way it hadn't for two hundred years? Was the figure of Nelson -- intemperate, charming, theatrical, anxious, impetuous, considerate, indifferent to death and danger, inspirational to those around him, and, above all, fixed on attack and victory -- an aberration in Enlightenment England? Or was the greatest of all English military heroes simply the product of his time, "the conjurer of violence" that England, at some level, deeply needed?It is a story rich with modern resonance. This was a battle fought for the control of a global commercial empire. It was won by the emerging British world power, which was widely condemned on the continent of Europe as "the arrogant usurper of the freedom of the seas." Seize the Fire not only vividly describes the brutal realities of battle but enters the hearts and minds of the men who were there; it is a portrait of a moment, a close and passionately engaged depiction of a frame of mind at a turning point in world history.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Stillman Books
(CA)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 338SB
- Título
- Seize the Fire
- Autor
- Nicolson, Adam
- Formato/Encadernação
- Blue paper with Black cloth spine and White lettering.
- Estado do livro
- Usado - VG+
- Condição de sobrecapa
- VG+
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0060753617
- ISBN 13
- 9780060753610
- Editorial
- Harper Collins
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 2005
- Páginas
- 341
- Dimensão
- 8 vo.
- Palavras-chave
- Book has minimal wear and a Black remainder mark on bottom edges.
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Sobre o Vendedor
Stillman Books
Membro de Biblio desde 2023
Coquitlam, British Columbia
Sobre Stillman Books
After closing my most recent bookstore in White Rock, B.C., I have decided to sell strictly online for the foreseeable future. My inventory is heavy on
children's and other illustrated books, along with aviation, sea and naval and other categories. I'm still plugging along after 42 years of book-selling.
children's and other illustrated books, along with aviation, sea and naval and other categories. I'm still plugging along after 42 years of book-selling.
