The Age of Scurvy - How a Surgeon, a Mariner and a Gentleman Helped Britain Win the Battle of Trafalgar by Stephen R. Bown

The Age of Scurvy - How a Surgeon, a Mariner and a Gentleman Helped Britain Win the Battle of Trafalgar

Stephen R. Bown

284 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced
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From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, one dreaded foe was responsible for more deaths at sea than piracy, shipwreck and all other illnesses combined. This scourge of the seas was Scurvy. Countless mariners perished from an agonising death ...

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