Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden went to sea as a boy, chased slave ships off Brazil, and in the American Civil War ran the Union blockade into Confederate ports under fire. He later became an admiral in the Ottoman navy as Hobart Pasha. These recollections, partly dictated on the Riviera in his last illness, cover the rough start, the perils and the adventures.
The informal last words of a Victorian sailor whose career ranged from Rio de Janeiro to Constantinople. Download the free EPUB.