Ben Brace by Captain Frederick Chamier
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ePublished by
February 2022
Originally published 1836
Fiction, Age of Sail
Author: Frederick Chamier
ePublished by
February 2022
Originally published 1836
Fiction, Age of Sail
Author: Frederick Chamier
Frederick Chamier (November 2, 1796–October 29, 1870) is the forgotten giant of nautical fiction and Ben Brace, The Last of Nelson’s Agamemnons: A Tale of the Sea is one of the greatest novels of the Age of Sail ever written. The narrative follows an ordinary British seaman through the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, and then into retirement.
Published originally in 1836, this digital version is created from an 1880 American re-print by T. B. Peterson & Brothers of Philadelphia, to which we have added chapter titles and additional illustrations.
The title character, Ben Brace, is loosely based on Admiral Nelson’s long-time servant, Tom Allen, from whom many of the anecdotes and stories in this novel were acquired by Chamier when he interviewed the retired seaman in Greenwich Hospital.
Published originally in 1836, this digital version is created from an 1880 American re-print by T. B. Peterson & Brothers of Philadelphia, to which we have added chapter titles and additional illustrations.
The title character, Ben Brace, is loosely based on Admiral Nelson’s long-time servant, Tom Allen, from whom many of the anecdotes and stories in this novel were acquired by Chamier when he interviewed the retired seaman in Greenwich Hospital.