On a Making Tide

Name: On a Making Tide
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: David Donachie
ISBN: 9781407928029

Author: David Donachie

Series: Nelson #1

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Unabridged: 14 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 08/01/2011

Categories: Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

On a Making Tide chronicles the fascinating early years of Horatio Nelson and Emma Lyon. Both determined to rise from obscurity, they set about making their ways through the world with corresponding recklessness and precocious ambition. Nelson enters the Royal Navy at the ae of twelve and is made a post captain at the age of 20 – his reputation as a daring yet benevolent officer secured in the American War of Independence. Emma, luscious but penniless, cannily confronts her limited prospects to rise through the social ranks from teenaged bawd to nobleman’s courtesan to celebrated artist’s model. This novel offers authentic sea actiona dn a rare peek into London’s demimonde, whree the lives of a beautiful courtesan and Britain’s greatest naval hero collide.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Christopher on September 30, 2018

This is the first of a trilogy of semi-biographical novels about Horatio Nelson, naval hero of Great Britain, and Emma Lyons nee Hart who became his mistress. The book starts with the young Emma being sent to a boarding school and a young Horatio becoming a midshipman in the Royal Navy, far apart an......more

Goodreads review by Yuliya on May 03, 2020

This is the story about Admiral Nelson his travel experience and fight with Europe countries. I am amazed by the author’s plot and language he described the book based on real facts but added some fictional characters as well. I advice to read the book who likes read sea stories and historical naval......more

Goodreads review by Patrick on July 22, 2019

The first of a trilogy about Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton traces their beginnings and progresses to the moment when they first meet. Due to the larger volume of information available about Nelson those chapters seem fuller and more detailed than those of the London girl of the streets who works her......more

Goodreads review by Laura on February 20, 2018

Very enjoyable......more