The best advice I've read for a while.
Currently reading
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I started reading this but couldn’t stay awake.
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Nelson and Sea Power by Christopher Lloyd.
May believed Nelson wouldn't even live to reach the age of 30 such were the illnesses that befell him - scurvy, malaria and yellow fever for example. He joined the Royal Navy at the age of twelve and went on to become Post Captain at the age of twenty.
He was known for not listening to orders and going his own way, bearing in mind that it often took six weeks for orders to arrive in the Mediterranean from London.
A remarkable man in every respect, as was his wife, Frances "Fanny" Nelson, not to mention Emma Hamilton, his lover.
Not many films have been made about Nelson, which is surprising.
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This little gem jumps from the pages.
