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Sto caricando le informazioni... Augustus Hervey's journal : being the intimate account of the life of a captain in the Royal Navy ashore and afloat, 1746-1759di David Erskine
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Augustus Hervey was born into the wildly eccentric family of the Earls of Bristol, a lineage so different from ordinary folk that it was said there were three sexes: men, women and Herveys. Indeed, Augustus's father was the infamous cross-dressing courtier lampooned by Alexander Pope as Sporus and Lord Fanny. A secret marriage and a notorious bigamy trial surrounded the young Augustus with scandal, and he was happy to escape to sea. But if the family thought the Navy a dull and conventional career, Augustus was soon to prove he had true Hervey blood in his veins. With powerful patronage, he rapidly achieved independent command, and in the closing years of the War of Austrian Succession he showed himself to be a surprisingly effective naval officer. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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