Adventures Of A Younger Son In Three Volumes

Author : Edward John Trelawny
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330555316
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (553 download)

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Download or read book Adventures of a Younger Son (Classic Reprint) written by Edward John Trelawny and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Adventures of a Younger Son For the first twenty years of Trelawny's life there is no authority but the "Younger Son." How far the book is "history," and how far romance, must therefore be considered. It is most likely from the internal evidence, that Trelawny began with the intention of writing his life, that as he progressed he found that a little fiction set off the facts to great advantage, and that, towards the end, the book becomes less and less of the life, and more and more of the romance. The Younger Son is an excellent stage hero by the finish; he meets and overcomes all odds; it is truly a glorious Trelawny, the Trelawny of his own imagination. But the account of his boyhood has a very real air, and if it is accepted, we see him as a self-willed, passionate boy, whose bad bringing-up developed his faults and hardened his character. At the age of twelve he went to sea on board the Superb, having the ill-fortune to miss the battle of Trafalgar through Admiral Duckworth delaying three days at Plymouth to get in mutton and potatoes. From his own account Trelawny would have us believe that he was then transferred to a sloop of war, and that as a midshipman on board her, he visited "the four quarters of the world," the voyage lasting eighteen months. But there is a document now in the possession of his family which shows that he never held warrant or commission in the navy. If we take it that he joined a merchantman, and that at length, sick of discipline, he joined a privateer cruising in the Indian seas, we shall perhaps be near the truth. The account of his next three years is still more open to doubt. That he led an adventurous life after deserting his ship is evident from the force and fire with which he sets forth his adventures; that he coloured, rearranged, and intensified these adventures is equally self-evident. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.