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Author : S. W. C. Pack
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Wager Mutiny written by S. W. C. Pack and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fernanda Peñaloza
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039109173
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Patagonia written by Fernanda Peñaloza and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume is a selection of the papers presented during the international conference Patagonia: Myths and Realities organised through the Centre of Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester and held in September 2005 at the Manchester Museum"--Introd.
Author : David Grann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471183696
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)
Download or read book The Wager written by David Grann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon, the Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The crew, marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing 2,500 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. Then, six months later, another, even more decrepit, craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways and they had a very different story to tell. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes – they were mutineers. The first group responded with counter-charges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous captain and his henchmen. While stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death—for whomever the court found guilty could hang.
Author : John Bulkeley
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843830962
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Loss of the Wager written by John Bulkeley and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Loss of the Wager is an eighteenth century melodrama set in a ferociously inhospitable climate on one of the world's most remote and dangerous coastlines. The Loss of the Wager is an eighteenth century melodrama set in a ferociously inhospitable climate on one of the world's most remote and dangerous coastlines. When Commodore Anson set out for the Pacific in 1740, to attackthe Spanish ships on the Chilean coast, he took eight ships with him. The Wager was effectively a transport ship, carrying stores and a force of marines; as the squadron rounded Cape Horn in fearsome weather, she was unable to keep up with the rest of them, and with her gear wrecked by the storm, was driven ashore on the Patagonian coast. The tale of mutiny, hardship and tenacity that ensued was told by two of the survivors, John Bulkeley, leader of those who repudiated the captain's authority, and John Byron, then a midshipman, who remained with the captain. Both eventually reached home by different routes, and their dramatic narratives caught the public imagination. Byronwas the grandfather of the poet, Lord Byron, who much admired the book and based the shipwreck scenes in Don Juan on 'my grand-dad's Narrative'. This voyage was the basis for Patrick O'Brian's historical work The Unknown Shore, written before he embarked on the Jack Aubrey novels.
Author : Philip Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521604260
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Story of the Voyage written by Philip Edwards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of voyage narratives, including Cook and Bligh, set in the context of British imperialism.
Author : Barry Stone
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459620968
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)
Download or read book True Crime and Punishment: Mutinies written by Barry Stone and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mutiny is an act of open revolt by those expected to serve without question, by those working in the most disciplined and demanding of conditions, in the crews of ships, both naval and privately owned. Mutiny on the High Seas examines the circumstances that have driven sailors (and officers) to reject or betray their code, to overthrow authority, to commit extreme and lethal acts of insubordination. Each episode discusses the people who provoked the mutiny (including brutal commanders; poor living conditions; poor pay; untrained and unwilling men; the occasional psychopath), how the mutiny was quelled, the fate of the mutineers, and whether the mutiny achieved any broader institutional, political or social change. The stories range from the mutiny against circumnavigator Ferdinand Magellan in 1520, to the 1797 mutiny of the British Fleet, through to the 1975 Storozhevoy mutiny led by an officer of a Soviet antisubmarine frigate to protest the corruption of the Brezhnev regime.
Author : Glyndwr Williams
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300105681
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)
Download or read book The Great South Sea written by Glyndwr Williams and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, English buccaneers, privateers, and naval expeditions sought fame and fortune in the distant reaches of the South Sea. Beginning with the voyage of Francis Drake in the 1570s and continuing through that of George Anson in the 1740s, a series of predatory English adventurers pursued Spanish treasure, and for a few the dream of riches came true. For most, the voyages ended in disappointment, and sometimes death. This engrossing book investigates these maritime adventures and how they were described in popular accounts of the time--accounts that affected English consciousness and perceptions of the wider world and that influenced the planning and nature of the later great voyages of James Cook and others. Glyndwr Williams, a leading expert on the exploration of the Pacific Ocean, draws on printed accounts of South Sea voyages as well as unpublished records--buccaneer journals, expedition papers, and government documents from public and private archives. For English seamen preying on Spanish trade and treasure, the South Sea was limited to the waters lapping the shores of Chile, Peru, and Mexico. But the vision was wider for others, Williams reveals. Cartographers at home in England, untrammeled by the constraints and dangers of actual voyaging, produced speculative maps with a vast Terra Australis Incognita, with fabulous Islands of Solomon, and with a promised short passage from Atlantic to Pacific. Satirical and utopian writers from Joseph Hall to Jonathan Swift found ample space in the wide ocean for their fictional travelers. And contemporary published voyage accounts--marvelous, though not necessarily reliable--further blurred the line between real and imaginary, contributing to the alluring, exotic image of the South Sea that took root in English folk memory and long outlasted the age of the buccaneers.
Author : John [prose] Milton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The prose works of John Milton, with prelim. remarks and notes by J.A. St. John written by John [prose] Milton and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Fleming Richardson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (6 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Geology, and Its Associate Sciences written by George Fleming Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Thomas Lowndes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir William Lawrence
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man written by Sir William Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 476 pages
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Download or read book The Standard Library Cyclopedia of Political, Constitutional, Statistical and Forensic Knowledge written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter T. Bradley
Publisher : Peter Bradley
ISBN 13 : 0773478663
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (734 download)
Download or read book British Maritime Enterprise in the New World written by Peter T. Bradley and published by Peter Bradley. This book was released on 1999 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a survey of the voyages of English navigators, from the pioneers of the late 15th century to the scientific expeditions of the early 19th century, not only in South American waters, but also the Caribbean and North America.
Author : John Milton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Prose Works of John Milton... written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Horatio Paul
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)
Download or read book Manual of Technical Analysis ... written by Benjamin Horatio Paul and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Demosthenes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Orations of Demosthenes Against Timocrates, Aristogiten, Aphobus, Onetor, Zenothemis, Apaturius, Phormio, Lacritus, Pantaenetus, Nausimachus, Boeotus, Spudias, Phaenippus, and for Phormio written by Demosthenes and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leopold von Ranke
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The history of the popes ... in the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries, tr. by E. Foster written by Leopold von Ranke and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
