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Author: Chotzinoff Anne Grossman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2000-10-03
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780393320947
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this cookbook companion to Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin novels, readers get authentic and practical recipes for dishes that complement the pair's travels--such as Burgoo, Drowned Baby, Sea-Pie, Jam Roly-Poly, and Sucking pig.
Author: Chotzinoff Anne Grossman
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2000-10-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0393320944
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A scholarly (though often hilarious) triumph of culinary anthropology."—Washington Post Celebrate the joys of Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series with this delightful cookbook, full of the food and drink that so often complement Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin's travels. Collected here are authentic and practical recipes for such eighteenth- and early-nineteenth- century dishes as Burgoo, Drowned Baby, Sea-Pie, Solomongundy, Jam Roly-Poly, Toasted Cheese, Sucking Pig, Treacle-Dowdy, and, of course, Spotted Dog. Also included are historical notes on the origins of the dishes as well as sections on the preparing of roasts, puddings, and raised pies."[A] splendid cookbook...graced with erudite bits of naval and gastronomical history....Deftly researched and written in prose nearly as funny as O'Brian's own."—Publishers Weekly "A thoroughly readable cookbook, as well as a useful appendix to a great series of novels and a newly opened window into a time now nearly 200 years gone."—San Jose Mercury News
Author: Anne Chotzinoff Grossman
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780393045598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides recipes for early-nineteenth-century foods such as burgoo, ship's biscuit, jam roly-poly, portable soup, and spotted dog
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1995-11-17
Total Pages: 99
ISBN-13: 0393038580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA companion to O'Brian's sea novels, this concise, historical overview offers a straightforward explanation of what daily life was like in Admiral Horatio Nelson's navy. Line drawings and charts help readers to understand the construction and rigging of the great ships and the types and disposition of the guns. Contemporary illustrations and cartoons depict various aspects of naval life, from the press gang to the scullery.
Author: Paul Gravett
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Published: 2008-08-12
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMammoth Books: From history to manga, true crime to sci-fi, these anthologies feature top-name contributors and award-winning editors.
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780393037098
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The finest writer of sea-stories in the English language."--J. de Courcy Ireland
Author: Anne Teesdale
Publisher: Sucker Creek Press
Published: 2018-06-07
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781732419407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLucy's Misadventures is a collection of life stories written from the perspective of a redbone coonhound with much personality and sass. Readers will commiserate with Anne and John as they try to manage Lucy and Trixie, a black Lab who also shares their home. Dog lovers will especially enjoy these tales; but truly anyone who likes pets will laugh and cry as Lucy lives her life-and reminds us how we should also live ours.
Author: Calvin W. Schwabe
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780813911625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes recipes for cooking horse meat, goats, dogs, cats, rats, rabbits, hares, squirrels, turtles, snakes, eels, sharks, frogs, and insects, among other unusual food sources.
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 0007255837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet sail for the read of your life! Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback by Harper Perennial with stunning new jackets.
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher:
Published: 2018-05-09
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 3963767154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSir Nigel is a historical novel set during the Hundred Years' War, by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1906, it is a fore-runner to Doyle's earlier novel The White Company, and describes the early life of that book's hero Sir Nigel Loring in the service of King Edward III at the start of the Hundred Years' War.
