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 The Valiant Sailor

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Author: Roy Palmer Printed:  1979
Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521201012
Copyright:  CUP 1973    
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29 sea songs, ballads and prose passages illustrating life on the lower deck in Nelson's Navy.
Personal remarks:
This is a most lovingly produced song book with illustrations, anecdotes, essays and articles aplenty. Even the most rabid land-lubber cannot fail to find enjoyment in Roy Palmer's achievement in bringing the atmosphere of sea-going in Nelsonian times so vividly to life. I have read and re-read it often and tried my throat at all the songs - it never fails to delight.