Documents Relating to Anson's Voyage Round the World 1740-1744

Ghost-writing is not a twentieth Century invention. In this volume for the Navy Records Society Dr Williams revealed that the classic best-seller, 'A Voyage round the World by George Anson', purportedly written by Anson's chaplain Richard Walter, had in fact been ghost-written by Benjamin Robins, a man who had not sailed on the voyage.