Contemporary Review, February 2000
..Southey's work is not only a superb biography but a 'period piece' of Regency writing to set beside Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott.
Navy News, November 2001
- it provides a clear and concise account ... a fitting literary monument to Britain's greatest naval hero.
Model Boats, October 1999
.. no work will ever achieve the special status in the Nelson gallery as this book.
Product Description
Robert Southey was an English poet and contemporary of Nelson. It was his ambition to write a clear and concise life of Nelson which could be easily absorbed by any young sailor.'
