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Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar
by Nicolson, Adam
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0060753617
- ISBN 13
- 9780060753610
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Harpercollins. Very Good+. 2005. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. 0060753617 . Card covers show light shelf wear, minor scuffing.; A tight solid book..; Trade PB; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 317 pages; " 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. " .
Synopsis
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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- Seller
- Ainsworth Books
(CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 21388
- Title
- Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar
- Author
- Nicolson, Adam
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- Uncorrected Proof
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0060753617
- ISBN 13
- 9780060753610
- Publisher
- Harpercollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- 0060753617, trafalgar, Lord Nelson
- Bookseller catalogs
- Militaria; MARITIME;
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Chilliwack, British Columbia
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Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
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