The Nutmeg of Consolation Read online

  The author is indebted to the Association of North Sea Societies and the Stavanger Maritime Museum for permission to draw on material used in the author's essay 'Shipboard Life in the Georgian Navy, 1750—1800; the Decline of the Old Order?', which appeared in The North Sea: Twelve Essays on Social History of Maritime Labour, ed by Lewis R. Fischer and others (Stavanger: 1992)

  This essay is taken from

  Patrick O'Brian, Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography,

  edited by A E Cunningham, and is reprinted here

  by kind permission of the British Library

  Table of Contents

  AUTHOR’S NOTE

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  The Naval World of Jack Aubrey