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The life of Nelson

Southey's biography of Britain's most famous naval hero has gained historical and literary importance since its publication in 1830. A peer of Coleridge, Byron and Wordsworth, his biography of Nelson influenced such writers as Herman Melville, Alfred Thayer Mahan and James Fenimore Cooper.
Print Book, English, ©1990
Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Md., ©1990