Dirty Linen
Patrick O’Brian, 4 August 1994
Mr Bligh’s Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theatre on the ‘Bounty’
by Greg Dening.
Canto, 445 pp., £7.95, April 1994,0 521 46718 7 Show More
by Greg Dening.
Canto, 445 pp., £7.95, April 1994,
Admiral Satan: The Life and Campaigns of Suffren
by Roderick Cavaliero.
Tauris, 312 pp., £29.95, May 1994,9781850436867 Show More
by Roderick Cavaliero.
Tauris, 312 pp., £29.95, May 1994,
“... but highly idiosyncratic and often valuable book. What a very different face of things is seen in Roderick Cavaliero’s Admiral Satan, a life of Pierre-André de Suffren, the French commander who led the Royal Navy such a dance in the Indian Ocean during the 1780s. Whereas Bligh appears to have possessed no personal authority – no authority at all ... ”
