The Life of Nelson by Sir Geoffrey Callender
With Maps, Plans and Illustrations
 
Biographical account of the life of Horatio Nelson by the English Navel Historian Sir Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender.  
 
Callender was writing in 1912 when he describes Burnham Thorpe the birthplace of Nelson.
“Those who make a pilgrimage to Nelson shrines row out to the Victory in Portsmouth harbour or visit the crypt of St. Paul’s Cathedral. Burnham Thorpe, within easy reach of crowded watering-places, Cromer and Sheringham and Hunstanton, is left unvisited. The centuries have made but little change.  It remains today the perfect picture of an old-time country village; with old grey church and village green, one straggling street, and swelling meadowlands with fringe of trees and dumpy straw-built cattle sheds. Due north some three miles from the churchyard wall is the sandy coast washed by the rolling North Sea waves.
Nelson was born at Burnham Thorpe on 29th September 1758. His father was vicar of the parish. His mother was a sister of that Captain Suckling who commanded the Dreadnought so pluckily in the fight off Cap Francois and made the twenty-fist of October a red-letter day in the family annals a year before Nelson was born….”
 
First edition 1912
Non-fiction softback book. National Maritime Museum Greenwich SE10.
No inscriptions. Interestingly not mention in Callender’s bibliography of published books.  It was certainly amongst the first books he wrote and published.  
 
Published by Longmans, Green and Co, 30 Paternoster Row, London, New York, Bombay and Calcutta.
Size: 18cm x 12.5 cm
Number of pages:  154 Pages
Illustrations: 12 Illustrations and Frontispiece, and comes complete with the rarer pull-out plan of the complete interior of The Victory
 
Contents:
INTRODUCTION
Of Books about Nelson
Of the Ships that Nelson sailed in. How they were Built and how Armed.
Of Naval Wars in Nelson’s lifetime prior to the Battle of St. Vincent
Of Sailing Tactics and Naval Manoeuvres
THE LIFE OF NELSON
Boyhood and youth
Early Services
Chapter 1 During the American War
Chapter 2 The Agamemnon
The Battle of St Vincent
Tenerife
The Battle of the Nile
The Battle of Copenhagen
The Trafalgar Campaign
Chapter 1 The blockade of Toulon
Chapter 2 The Chase
Chapter 3 The Battle
The Death of Nelson
Finale
APPENDIX Nelson Relics
GLOSSARY
MAPS AND BATTLE PLANS
The Battle of St Vincent 14 February 1797
Aboukir Bay
The Battle of the Nile 1 August 1798
Denmark and the Entrances to the Baltic
Cadiz and Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar 21 October 1805
 
ILLUSTRATIONS
Nelson in 1797 Frontispiece
An Eighteenth-Century Ship
Nelson and the Bear
Sir John Jervis KCB
Nelson at the Battle of St. Vincent
Cuthbert, Lord Collingwood
The Battle of the Nile
Nelson’s Blind Eye
Nelson in his Cabin on board the Victory
Trafalgar
The Death of Nelson
Napoleon on board the Bellerophon
Interior of the Victory
 
Biography of Author:
Sir Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender (1875-1946) was born in Manchester in 1875 and educated at Oxford.  He became Professor of History and English at the Royal Naval College Greenwich and was the organiser and first director of the National Maritime Museum. He served as director from 1934-1946 and was knighted in 1938. His portrait was painted by David Shanks Ewart in 1945 and hangs in the National Maritime Museum where he was to die less than a year later on 6 November 1946. He wrote several books including:
Sea King’s of Britain 3 volumes 1907-1911
Spindrift: Salt from the Ocean of English Prose 1915
The Life of Admiral Sir John Leake 2 volumes (Navy Records Society 1918, 1919
The Naval Side of British History 1924 
 
Condition:
Buff coloured card covers: Age-related wear and age-toned around the cover edges as image. A greysi smudge through the name on the front. Top outermost corner missing front cover. Tearing and age-tone on rear covers. Foxing to outer page edges and age-toned pages. 
Binding: Tight 
Spine: Crinkled with wear on edges.
Pages.  All pages complete. All illustrations, maps and plans complete.  Age-toned at the edges. Foxing to outer page edges. A good, but rather delicate example of a book more than 100 years old. 
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