By Stephen R. Bown
Book Details:
ISBN: 0312313926
EAN: 9780312313920
ASIN: 0312313926
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Publication Date: 2005-08-01
Number of Pages: 272
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Synopsis from Amazon:
Scurvy took a poor toll within the Age of Sail, killing extra sailors than have been misplaced in all sea battles mixed. the specter of the sickness saved ships with regards to domestic and doomed these vessels that ventured too faraway from port. The willful lack of know-how of the royal clinical elite, who recommended ludicrous clinical theories in keeping with speculative learn whereas ignoring the life-saving houses of citrus fruit, fee tens of hundreds of thousands of lives and adjusted the process many battles at sea. The medication for scurvy ranks one of the maximum of human accomplishments, but its impression on background has, previously, been mostly overlooked.
From the earliest recorded visual appeal of the ailment within the 16th century, to the eighteenth century, the place a guy had merely part an opportunity of surviving the scourge, to the early 19th century, whilst the British conquered scurvy and effectively blockaded the French and defeated Napoleon, Scurvy is a clinical detective tale for the a while, the attention-grabbing precise tale of ways James Lind (the surgeon), James cook dinner (the mariner), and Gilbert Blane (the gentleman) labored individually to do away with the feared sickness.
Scurvy is an evocative trip again to the period of wood ships and sails, while the illness infiltrated each element of seafaring existence: press gangs "recruit" mariners at the approach domestic from a overdue evening on the pub; a poor voyage looking for riches ends with a hobbled fleet and part the workforce heaved overboard; prepare dinner majestically travels the South Seas yet suffers an unbelievable destiny. Brimming with stories of ships, sailors, and baffling forms, Scurvy is a unprecedented mixture of compelling background and vintage experience story.
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Author Name: Stephen R. Bown
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I am an award-winning writer of old non-fiction with seven books to my credits (and the manuscript for my 8th booklet is sort of complete). My e-book Scurvy: How a health care professional, a Mariner and a Gentleman Solved the best clinical secret of the Age of Sail used to be a world serious luck and used to be chosen as one of many Globe and Mail's most sensible a hundred books of 2004. A so much Damnable Invention: Dynamite, Nitrates and the Making of the fashionable international, was once integrated within the clinical American e-book membership, the historical past ebook membership and the standard Paperback booklet membership in addition to being shortlisted for 2 awards. My subsequent booklet, insanity, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver, was once shortlisted for the Canadian Authors' Association's Lela universal Award for Canadian heritage and gained the 2009 B.C. booklet Prize Booksellers' selection Award.
After the book of service provider Kings: while businesses governed the area, I got a cell name from the perfect Honourable Paul Martin, former best Minister of Canada, telling me how a lot he loved the e-book. He stayed up all evening analyzing it, yet he acknowledged the misplaced sleep used to be worthy it.
My newest booklet is 1494: How a kin Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the realm in part. It was once published in August 2011 in Canada and should be published in February 2012 within the United States.
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