Lives Of Illustrious British Seamen Viz Howard Earl Of Nottingham Sir Francis Drake Sir Robert Dudley Sir Richard Hawkins Admiral Blake Sir George Ayscue Sir Thomas Cavendish Capt William Dampier General George Monk Admiral Montague Sir Edward Spragge Admiral Russel Sir John Berry Admiral Benbow Sir Ralph Delaval Sir Cloudesley Shovel Sir George Rooke Sir John Leake Sir George Byng Viscount Torrington

Author : Robert Southey
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330349830
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (498 download)

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Download or read book English Seamen written by Robert Southey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English Seamen: Howard, Clifford, Hawkins, Drake Cavendish Writing to his friend Mrs. Hodson, on the 20th January, 1830, Southey tells her, "I have engaged to compose a volume of Naval History in biographical form for the Cabinet Cyclopœdia, not for love but for lucre, though it will be done lovingly when in hand". The volume grew into volumes. In 1838 he had still to write that he was "getting through the admirals". Next year his strength broke down under the strain of incessant writing, and what was more fatal still, of reading continually through the walks which he was, with some difficulty, persuaded to take for the good of his health. The admirals remained a fragment. The whole work was to have included an introductory sketch of the Naval History of England down to the reign of Elizabeth. From that point, in the words of Southey's Preface, "it may be best continued in a biographical form; because there are then materials for such biography, whereby we are enabled to understand how much depended upon the character of individual commanders". The introduction filled the whole of one volume, and overflowed much the greater part of a second. The biographies had extended into a fifth volume when the failure of Southey's intellect stopped his share of the work, at the end of the life of Sir William Monson. 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.