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Book Synopsis Heroes and Gaolbirds by : Bill Hinde
Download or read book Heroes and Gaolbirds written by Bill Hinde and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of George Hunter, the author's grandfather, who became unemployed after the battle of Trafalgar and the Napoleonic wars.He and a friend conspired to commit a felony for which they would be transported to a far off land where the streets were said to be paved with gold.They arrived in leg irons to find that not only the streets not paved with gold, but mostly were not paved at all.George served the balance of his sentence and became a free man.Thereafter, his fortunes changed and after a series of misadventures he prospered in this emerging country.
Book Synopsis Young Gaol-birds by : Charles Edward Bellyse Russell
Download or read book Young Gaol-birds written by Charles Edward Bellyse Russell and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Stories of Elizabethan Heroes by : Edward Gilliat
Download or read book Stories of Elizabethan Heroes written by Edward Gilliat and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before we touch upon the lives of some of the heroes of the Maiden Queen, it were well to consider briefly what life was like in those days, and how it differed from our own. When on a November day in 1558 Sir Nicholas Throckmorton spurred his steaming horse to Hatfield, in haste to inform the Princess Elizabeth that Queen Mary was dead, he was bidden to ride back to the Palace of St. James's and request one of the ladies of the bedchamber to give him, if the Queen were really dead, the black enamelled ring which her Majesty wore night and day. So cautious had the constant fear of death made Anne Boleyn's daughter. Meanwhile a deputation from the Council had arrived at Hatfield to offer to the new Queen their dutiful homage. Elizabeth sank upon her knees and exclaimed: "A Domino factum est istud, et est mirabile in oculis nostris" ("This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes")—a text which the Queen caused to be engraved on her gold coins, in memory of that day of release from anxiety. For the poor young Princess had lived for years in a state of alarm; she had been imprisoned in the Tower, the victim of plots for and against her; she had been kept under severe control at Woodstock under Sir Henry Bedingfeld, where she once saw a milkmaid singing merrily as she milked the cows in the Park, and exclaimed, "That milkmaid's lot is better than mine, and her life far merrier." And now on a sudden her terrors were turned into a great joy; and what the Princess felt all England was soon experiencing, as soon as men realised that the tyranny of Rome and of Spain was shattered and gone. Elizabeth was now at the close of her twenty-fifth year, of striking beauty and commanding presence, tall and comely, with a wealth of hair, yellow tinged with red; she inherited from her mother an air of coquetry, and her affable manners soon endeared her to her people. The English were tired of Smithfield fires and foreign priests and princes; a new era seemed to be dawning upon them at last—an era of freedom for soul and body; and imagination ran riot with hope to forecast a new and happier world. The homage of an admiring nation was stirred by her young beauty; and wild ambition, not content with the quiet fields of England, turned adventurously to the New World beyond the Atlantic, where men dreamed of real cities paved with gold. It is true that the Pope had given all the great West to his faithful daughter, Spain; but Englishmen thought they had as much right to colonise America as any son of Spain, and they soon obtained their Queen's leave to land and explore. But the first merchants who ventured west found that Spanish policy forbade "Christians to trade with heretics." Nay, if they were taken prisoners by the Spaniards they suffered the punishment of the rack and the stake; and if they escaped, they came home with tales of cruelty that set all England ablaze to take revenge. "Abroad, the sky is dark and wild," writes Kingsley, "and yet full of fantastic splendour. Spain stands strong and awful, a rising world-tyranny, with its dark-souled Cortezes and Pizarros, Alvas, Don Johns and Parmas, men whose path is like the lava stream: who go forth slaying and to slay in the names of their Gods.... Close to our own shores the Netherlands are struggling vainly for their liberties: abroad, the Western Islands, and the whole trade of Africa and India, will in a few years be hers ... and already Englishmen who go out to trade in Guinea, in the Azores and New Spain, are answered by shot and steel."
Book Synopsis Hock and Soda Water by : John Mortimer
Download or read book Hock and Soda Water written by John Mortimer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry, now in the autumn of his years, is transported back to the key episodes of his life. At once ironic and affectionate, he speaks with his younger self both man and boy, offering warnings of a life to come and advice on how he might live it without the small self-delusions and regrets that leave him ultimately unfulfilled. Warm, funny and entertaining Hock and Soda Water is a nostalgic lament for a life never lived.
Book Synopsis Heroes of the Indian Mutiny by : Edward Gilliat
Download or read book Heroes of the Indian Mutiny written by Edward Gilliat and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gaolbird written by Simon Barnard and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 23 October 1821 and convict William Swallow stands on the deck of the Malabar for muster. He is wearing a canary yellow convict uniform and his legs are chained. He’s just completed the 121-day sea voyage from London to Hobart Town, but his wild and audacious adventures have barely begun. He’ll soon ditch the convict uniform and the chains, take part in a mutiny, become a pirate captain and fool the world in what just might be the most outrageous and unbelievable true story in Australia’s convict history.
Book Synopsis The Soul of a Skunk by : George Baker
Download or read book The Soul of a Skunk written by George Baker and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Romance of Empire by : Philip Gibbs
Download or read book The Romance of Empire written by Philip Gibbs and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis A Book of Scoundrels by : Charles Whibley
Download or read book A Book of Scoundrels written by Charles Whibley and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Nonconformists by : James Munson
Download or read book The Nonconformists written by James Munson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Among the Broad-arrow Men by : B.2.15
Download or read book Among the Broad-arrow Men written by B.2.15 and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Empire written by Niall Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 2004-04-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This grand narrative history of the world's first experiment in globalization offers lessons for an ever-expanding American Empire--from England's most talented young historian.
Book Synopsis THE CHRONICLES OF NEWGATE by : ARTHUR GRIFFITHS
Download or read book THE CHRONICLES OF NEWGATE written by ARTHUR GRIFFITHS and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle by :
Download or read book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: