Limeys: The True Story of One Man's War Against Ignorance, the Establishment and the Deadly Scurvy by David I. Harvie
Limeys: The True Story of One Man's War Against Ignorance, the Establishment and the Deadly Scurvy

David I. Harvie

Limeys: The True Story of One Man's War Against Ignorance, the Establishment and the Deadly Scurvy

David I. Harvie

320 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction health history science informative fast-paced
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In 1740, Commodore George Anson left Portsmouth with seven ships and nearly 2,000 men. He returned four years later with under 600. Only four were killed by the enemy; the rest died not as the result of war, weather or misnavigation, but of scurvy...

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