The remarkable thing about this book is that its author, the antiquarian and amateur scientist John Clerk (1728-1812) - known as 'Clerk of Eldin' - was not a sailor, but a landlubber Scot from a wealthy family who developed a theoretical ...
Volume five in this series provides a sympathetic rendering of this fascinating work in Modern English, presenting the Destruction of Troy in an easy-to-read format, whilst carefully preserving the alliterative metre.