by Max Adams
Ville de Paris, HMS 19, 280, 291, 339
Villeneuve, Vice-Admiral Pierre Charles 205–6, 206–7, 207–9, 211, 215–6, 227, 336
Vimeiro, battle of 269
Wagram, battle of 282
War in the Mediterranean (Hughes) 306
Warner, Oliver 307
Watt, James 123
Weazel, HMS 242
Wellington, Sir Arthur Wellesley, Duke of 33–4, 197, 267, 269, 295
Wentworth, Captain 199
Wesley, John 38
West Indies 56–7, 84–6
strategic situation 77–8
economy 97–8
West Indies toast, the 57
Whitworth, Lord 195
Wilfred, St 36
Wilkinson, John 123
William IV 104, 105
Windsor, Antigua 88
Wolfe, General James 42
yellow fever 89
About Admiral Collingwood
Admiral Lord Collingwood, the eldest son of a Newcastle merchant, went to sea in 1761 at the age of thirteen. In his nearly fifty years in the Navy he rose to become a fine seaman, a master of gunnery, and a battle commander the equal of his friend – and rival in love – Nelson. He was also an accomplished writer and wit, doting father, inveterate gossip and consummate diplomat and strategist.
Collingwood’s service took him to Boston, where he lived and fought during the American War of Independence; to Antigua, where he and Nelson both fell in love with Mary Moutray; and to Corsica, Sicily and Menorca, where he began as a young midshipman and ended his career as the effective viceroy of the Mediterranean.
Admiral Collingwood is an intimate portrait of a forgotten British naval hero and a thrilling portrait of the glory years of the age of sail.
Reviews
The King in the North
‘A triumph. The most gripping portrait of 7th-Century Britain that I have read… A Game of Thrones in the Dark Ages.’
The Times
‘The author has an engaging way with words, you feel personally guided in the quest.’
Newcastle Chronicle
‘In his handsome biography, Adams makes a powerful case for Oswald as the man who conceived a Northumbrian golden age.’
Newcastle Journal
‘A superb biography… a wonderfully vivid portrayal of early medieval England.’
The Hexham Courant
‘Max Adams’ The King in the North…pulls off the feat of providing a gripping, panoramic portrait of seventh-century Britain without cutting corners’
History Today
‘Max Adams is to be lauded for an engagingly populist and evocative book’
Literary Review
‘The King in the North, biographer Max Adams' fascinating insight into the life of King Oswald after who the Oswestry is named… sold out on Wednesday.’
Shropshire Star
About Max Adams
MAX ADAMS studied archaeology at York University and has excavated widely in Britain and abroad, publishing more than thirty papers in academic and popular journals as well as several monographs. He has made a number of television programmes as the ‘Landscape Detective’ and co-convenes the Bernician Studies Group in Newcastle upon Tyne where he teaches in the Explore Lifelong Learning programme. His active research interests include the monastic geography of County Donegal in Ireland and the Dark Age landscapes of the North of England. He is the author of The Prometheans (2009), which was a Guardian Book of the Week, the bestselling The King in the North (2013) and The Wisdom of Trees (2014).
Also by Max Adams
The King in the North
A charismatic leader, a warrior whose prowess in battle earned him the epithet Whiteblade, an exiled prince who returned to claim his birthright, the inspiration for Tolkein’s Aragorn.
Oswald of Northumbria was the first great English monarch, yet today this legendary figure is all but forgotten. In this panoramic protrait of Dark Age Britain, archaeologist and biographer Max Adams returns the king in the North to his rightful place in history.
The King in the North is available here.
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The Wisdom of Trees
Trees are marvels of nature. They are the earth’s lungs, climate-regulators and habitat-protectors. Ever since our prehistoric ancestors emerged from the forests of a drying Africa, trees have given us shelter, medicine, shade, food and fuel in abundance.
In an eclectic and beautifully written sequence of reflections, investigations, stories and tree profiles, Max Adams explores both the extraordinary biology of trees and humanity’s relationship with wood and forest across the centuries. He reveals why birch bark makes the best fire-lighter; why the fruits of the rowan must pass through a bird’s gut before its seeds can germinate; and how the wood of the venerable yew tree ensured that the English prevailed at Agincourt.
Embellished with images from the 1776 edition of John Evelyn’s arboreal classic Sylva, The Wisdom of Trees will delight anyone who cares about the natural world and our interaction with it.
The Wisdom of Trees is available here.
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First published in Great Britain in 2005 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
This edition published in 2015 by Head of Zeus, Ltd
Copyright © Max Adams 2005
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Cover paintings: Battle in the moonlight off Cape St Vincent in the West Indies, between the English and the Franco-Spanish fleets, January 16, 1780, painting, 18th century. London-Greenwich, National Maritime Museum (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images) | Portrait of English Admiral Lord Cuthbert Collingwood, second in command at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, by Henry Howard (1769-1847). United Kingdom, 19th century. London, National Portrait Gallery (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)
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