An edition of A sea of words (1995)
A sea of words
a lexicon and companion for Patrick O'Brian's seafaring tales
By Dean King
Publish Date
1995
Publisher
Henry Holt
Language
eng
Pages
483
Description:
More than 50,000 devoted Patrick O'Brian fans have made A SEA OF WORDS their companion book of choice. In response to passionate reader demand, Dean King adds hundreds of new definitions and new illustrations and background essays referenced in O'Brian's clipper ship adventure sagas, including two new novels.
subjects: Dictionaries, Language, Glossaries, English Historical fiction, Jack Aubrey (Fictitious character), Naval art and science, Characters, Stephen Maturin (Fictitious character), English Sea stories, Glossaries, vocabularies, O'brian, patrick, 1914-2000, Historical fiction, history and criticism, Naval art and science, dictionaries, Sea stories, history and criticism, English language, lexicography
People: Patrick O'Brian (1914-)