From Baird Maritime
Another excellent little book in the series 'Seafarers' Voices' published by Seaforth, this is up to the same high standard as Galley Slaves and A Privateer's Voyage Round the World.
Once regarded as fiction this book is now accepted as a memoir. It is a good one. Chamier, who first went to sea after Trafalgar, was clearly an enlightened and educated man. His contacts with Byron and his subsequent literary career illustrate that clearly.
While most of the Napoleonic activity – at sea anyway – was over by the time Chamier went to sea, his career did not lack action. He recalled some thirty events during which he was shot at.
He vividly describes the War of 1812 and controversially criticised the British policy of attacking civilians. His other adventures included anti-slaver and anti-pirate patrols and roaming the Mediterranean and north Atlantic. All are delightfully described.
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