Seize the Fire : Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar

Name: Seize the Fire : Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar
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ISBN: 9780060824846

ISBN-10: 0060824840

ISBN-13: 9780060824846

Edition: Abridged

Authors: Adam Nicolson

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In Seize the Fire, Adam Nicolson, author of the widely acclaimed God's Secretaries, takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic. Is violence a necessary aspect of the hero? And daring? Why did the cult of the hero flower in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in a way it hadn't for two hundred years? Was the figure of Nelson -- intemperate, charming, theatrical, anxious, impetuous, considerate, indifferent to death and danger, inspirational to those around him, and, above all, fixed on attack and victory -- an aberration in Enlightenment England? Or was the…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Binding: Compact Disc
Size: 5.25" wide x 6.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Adam Nicolson is the author of many books on history, travel and the environment. He is winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the British Topography Prize and lives at Sissinghust Castle in Kent.