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""Kevin Jackson's thrilling sea stories, told with verve, wit and dash, make the most gripping reading. Here are the men, women, ships and adventures which made so much of the modern world, and Britain's place within it. Sir Francis Drake and Charles Darwin are lucky to have found such an erudite and elegant scribe as Kevin Jackson."" Horatio Clare

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Kevin Jackson was a prolific writer, broadcaster and film-maker. His previous books include four other titles in his acclaimed maritime history series: Mayflower: The Voyage from Hell; Darwins's Odyssey; The Queens's Pirate; and Nelson's Victory, as well as Constellation of Genius: 1922 and All That Jazz (Farrar Strauss Giroux), a history of modernism which was a Book of the Week in the Guardian and a Book of the Year in the Express; Invisible Forms (Picador); Carnal (Pallas Athene); and the authorised biography Humphrey Jennings (Picador).

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