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William Clark Russell and the Victorian Nautical Novel [PDF ebook]
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William Clark Russell wrote more than forty nautical novels. Immensely popular in their time, his works were admired by contemporary writers, such as Conan Doyle, Stevenson and Meredith, while Swinburne, considered him ‘the greatest master of the sea, living or dead’. Based on extensive archival research, Nash explores this remarkable career.

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Format PDF ● Pages 256 ● ISBN 9781781440179 ● Publisher Pickering & Chatto Publishers ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 3121257 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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