COCHRANE THE DAUNTLESSThe Life and Adventures of Thomas Cochrane

The Life of the most daring and dauntless sea dog of them all - Thomas Cochrane; the man who founded the navies of four other countries - Brazil, Greece, Chile and Peru - after getting into hot water with the Royal Navy.

No buccaneer ever swaggered across a British warship’s quarterdeck with more aplomb than Thomas Cochrane, the daring and debonair hero of this biography and the model for the fictional naval heroes of C.S. Foreseter and Patrick O’Brian. The only difference, says author David Cordingly, between Cochrane and his fictional counterparts were that his true-life exploits were far more thrilling and exciting than theirs. A born romantic and a man of action in a service which valued conformity, Cochrane was always an uncomfortable subordinate - and often his own worst enemy. But time and again, Cochrane demonstrated that he had the Nelson touch - and a little extra besides - as he took on and beat the enemy’; launched daring raids on land as well as sea and proved himself lucky as well as brave. But that luck left him when he overreached himself as a landlubber when he was blackballed by the Establishment over a Stock Exchange scandal. In self-imposed exile, Cochrane became the founding father of the navies of four countries - Peru, Chile, Brazil and Greece - as well as helping them liberate themselves from their colonial oppressors. Only old age quelled his restless, radical spirit. In this rip-roaring biography naval historian David Cordingly has produced a swashbuckling book well worthy of its fantastical hero.

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Product Code:	12336
Author:	David Cordingly
Format:	HB.420pp Colour and B&W illustrations Published Price £20
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