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Author : Woodes Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Cruising Voyage Round the World written by Woodes Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1712 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Shelvocke
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848320663
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book A Privateer's Voyage Round the World written by George Shelvocke and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1719, Captain George Shelvocke, a poverty-stricken ex-naval officer, appealed for help to an old shipmate, Edward Hughes, who was then part of a consortium fitting-out two privateering vessels to prey on the Spanish in the Pacific. He offered Shelvocke the captaincy of the larger ship but then demoted him to a smaller vessel, and Shelvocke, bitter and revengeful, immediately set off on his own for South America with a semi-mutinous crew, and his much-hated Captain of Marines, William Betagh. After rounding Cape Horn, one of ShelvockeÕs men shot a black albatross Ð an event later to be immortalised in ColeridgeÕs Rime of the Ancient Mariner Ð and then, off Chile, with considerable loot onboard his ship, the Speedwell, was wrecked in the Juan Fernandez Islands. Undaunted, he built another vessel and eventually returned to England, via Macao, loaded with Spanish plunder. Back home he was arrested for piracy and defrauding his shareholders, though he argued that he owed the original owners nothing as their ship had been honestly lost. The events were grippingly portrayed in his memoir A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea, though some of it was disputed by Betagh and others, and it still reads today as a fast moving, incident-packed tale exposing the world of the maritime mercenaries and privateers, men who would take on anything and everything Ð for Gold!
Author : Woodes Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Cruising Voyage Round the World written by Woodes Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Frohock
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611493870
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Buccaneers and Privateers written by Richard Frohock and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late seventeenth century, Spain dominated the Caribbean and Central and South America, establishing colonies, mining gold and silver, and gathering riches from Asia for transportation back to Europe. Seeking to disrupt Spain's nearly unchecked empire-building and siphon off some of their wealth, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British adventurers--both legitimate and illegitimate--led numerous expeditions into the Caribbean and the Pacific. Many voyagers wrote accounts of their exploits, captivating readers with their tales of exotic places, shocking hardships and cruelties, and daring engagements with national enemies. Widely distributed and read, buccaneering and privateering narratives contributed significantly to England's imaginative, literary rendering of the Americas in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and they provided a venue for public dialogue about sea rovers and their position within empire. This book takes as its subject the literary and rhetorical construction of voyagers and their histories, and by extension, the representation of English imperialism in popular sea-voyage narratives of the period.
Author : George Anson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book A Voyage Round the World, in the Years 1740-44 written by George Anson and published by . This book was released on 1781 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Beattie
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1783270209
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book British Privateering Voyages of the Early Eighteenth Century written by Tim Beattie and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of hugely ambitious and risky long-distance private voyages, only one of which brought huge returns for investors. The three great privateering expeditions into the South Sea, which set out, respectively, in 1703, led by William Dampier; in 1708, led by Woodes Rogers; and in 1719, led by George Shelvocke, were costly and ambitious long distance voyages, carrying great risk for their investors but promising great reward. This book tells the story of the voyages and their impact. It argues that, far from being anachronistic activities more in keeping with an earlier age, as some scholars have asserted, the voyages were significant events and had a huge impact - on politicians, influencing future maritime and naval strategy; on investors, swelling enthusiasm for the South Sea Company which ended in the disastrous Bubble; and in literature, where the narratives of the voyages became an important source for some of the greatest literature of the period, including Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The book provides a great deal of original detail about the voyages, including the difficulties of undertaking such lengthy expeditions, unrest among the crews, and financial details of investmentsand returns - and losses. Tim Beattie completed his doctorate at the University of Exeter.
Author : Virginia La Grand
Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 : 9401208638
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book A Spectacular Failure written by Virginia La Grand and published by Brill. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines Defoe’s three-volume Robinson Crusoe series in the light of the ‘banter’ style he developed as a pamphleteer. That heavily ironic style had brought him renown but also put him in the pillory. The present study explores for the first time Defoe’s complaint that readers and pirate abridgers misread his tale of the would-be trader Robinson Crusoe. Using Discourse Analysis and Relevance Theory to examine the early abridgements of Volume I and Defoe’s subsequent two volumes, this study argues that Defoe’s greatest success is also a peculiar failure.
Author : William Betagh
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)
Download or read book A Voyage Round the World written by William Betagh and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Voyage Round the World" by William Betagh. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : William Dampier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book A New Voyage Round the World written by William Dampier and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Dampier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Supplement of the Voyage Round the World written by William Dampier and published by . This book was released on 1700 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Laing PURVES
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The English Circumnavigators: the Most Remarkable Voyages Round the World by English Sailors ... Edited with Notes ... by D. L. Purves written by David Laing PURVES and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814712368
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition written by and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The messianic idea that a redeemer sent by God will come to end the suffering of a persecuted people and inaugurate a new age of justice and peace has been one of the most powerful and influential concepts given by the Jewish people to western civilization. This book represents a sample of the most penetrating and provocative scholarly interpretations of Jewish messianic movement from various perspectives- historical, sociological, psychological, and religious.
Author : Benerson Little
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1574889117
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (748 download)
Download or read book The Sea Rover's Practice written by Benerson Little and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes in detail how privateers, buccaneers, and pirates plied their trade during the piracy's "golden age."
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Collection of Voyages: A supplement to the voyage round the world ; Two voyages to Campeachy ; A discourse of tradewinds 1699, by William Dampier written by and published by . This book was released on 1729 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Dampier
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781376438093
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (38 download)
Download or read book A New Voyage Round the World; written by William Dampier and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Arne Zuidhoek
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004515674
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Pirate Encyclopedia written by Arne Zuidhoek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pirate Encyclopedia, as the essential companion for scholars, students, and a general audience intrigued by tales and facts, offers the most complete body of data available on the legitimacy of more than 7.000 adventurers as subjects of investigation.
Author : James McDermott
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300083804
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (838 download)
Download or read book Martin Frobisher written by James McDermott and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the life and exploits of the privateer who served Elizabeth I, battled against the Spanish Armada, and attempted to find the Northwest Passage.
