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Sailing Techniques: Heaving the Lead and Heaving the Log

May 2, 2010 The Dear Knows 0

Patrick O’Brian was an author obsessed with detail, and throughout our beloved series gives us great insight into the everyday running of a ship of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic War. This period detail […]

Dr. Lind and the Cure for Scurvy

May 2, 2010 The Dear Knows 0

Scurvy is a disease Dr. Maturin encounters several times in the course of his journeys with Captain Aubrey, despite the fact that it was a disease with a known cure. At least in those instances […]