le,-, c ' 4 : # SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE WEEK Cochrane by Robert Harvey
This is an account of the life and adventures of the daring seaman Thomas Cochrane, who rose from midshipman to admiral and was called 'the sea wolf' by Napoleon. His exploits were so compelling that the novelist Patrick O'Brian used them as the basis for the character Jack Aubrey, the main protaganist of naval novels set during the Napoleonic War. Thomas Cochrane was framed in a Stock Exchange scandal, sentenced to the pillory, escaped prison by means of a rope and fled the country to become a mercenary admiral fighting for independence.
'Cochrane under his aliases – Savage in Marryat, Hornblower in Forester and Aubrey in O'Brian must be the most famous sailor since literature began ... this is a readable and enjoyable book.' William Waldegrave, The Spectator r
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