Le Flibustier Mystérieux

Author : Charles de La Roncière
Publisher : Editions des régionalismes & PRNG éditions
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2366340621

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Le flibustier mystérieux by Charles de La Roncière Pdf

Que Messieurs les bibliothécaires chargés des catalogues se gardent de classer parmi les romans l'oeuvre présente. Encore qu'elle débute comme un conte d'Edgar Poë, c'est de l'histoire pure. Les trésors cachés ou engloutis ont de tout temps passionné la foule. Plus d'un a une longue histoire. Mes études maritimes m'ont valu, de loin en loin, l'interview de prospecteurs en mal d'aventures. Les questions qui m'étaient posées en pareil cas, allaient droit au but. Mais qui aurait pu flairer une affaire analogue lorsque une lectrice venue d'une région lointaine de l'Afrique demandait naguère à la Bibliothèque Nationale : "Je voudrais avoir en main Les Clavicules de Salomon". Ce n'était autre chose qu'un volume, publié en 1624 par l'archevêque d'Arles, Mgr Jaubert de Barrault, sous le titre : Les Clavicules de Salomon. C'étaient dans ce livre-là que la lectrice cherchait "les petites clefs" pour déchiffrer le cryptogramme où un forban indiquait le gîte d'un trésor... Cet ouvrage, initialement publié en 1934 et totalement introuvable actuellement, se veut une introduction à la résolution du fameux "cryptogramme de la Buse" du surnom d'un pirate fameux du XVIIIe siècle, Olivier Levasseur, originaire de Calais et qui écuma l'Océan Indien.

Author : Charles de La Roncière
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9791094565728

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Le flibustier mystérieux by Charles de La Roncière Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Copyright
ISBN : UCAL:B3458500

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Catalogue of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Arne Zuidhoek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004515673

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The Pirate Encyclopedia by Arne Zuidhoek Pdf

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 : Neil Rennie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191668654

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Treasure Neverland by Neil Rennie Pdf

Treasure Neverland is about factual and fictional pirates. Swashbuckling eighteenth-century pirates were the ideal pirates of all time and tales of their exploits are still popular today. Most people have heard of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd even though they lived about three hundred years ago, but most have also heard of other pirates, such as Long John Silver and Captain Hook, even though these pirates never lived at all, except in literature. The differences between these two types of pirates - real and imaginary - are not quite as stark as we might think as the real, historical pirates are themselves somewhat legendary, somewhat fictional, belonging on the page and the stage rather than on the high seas. Based on extensive research of fascninating primary material, including testimonials, narratives, legal statements, colonial and mercantile records, Neil Rennie describes the ascertainable facts of real eighteenth-century pirate lives and then investigates how such facts were subsequently transformed artistically, by writers like Defoe and Stevenson, into realistic and fantastic fictions of various kinds: historical novels, popular melodramas, boyish adventures, Hollywood films. Rennie's aim is to watch, in other words, the long dissolve from Captain Kidd to Johnny Depp. There are surprisingly few scholarly studies of the factual pirates - properly analysing the basic manuscript sources and separating those documents from popular legends - and there are even fewer literary-historical studies of the whole crew of fictional pirates, although those imaginary pirates form a distinct and coherent literary tradition. Treasure Neverland is a study of this Scots-American literary tradition and also of the interrelations between the factual and fictional pirates - pirates who are intimately related, as the nineteenth-century writings about fictional pirates began with the eighteenth-century writings about supposedly real pirates. 'What I want is the best book about the Buccaneers', wrote Stevenson when he began Treasure Island in 1881. What he received, rightly, was indeed the best book: the sensational and unreliable History of the Pyrates (1724).

Author : Craig P. Bauer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780691192291

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Unsolved! by Craig P. Bauer Pdf

"In 1953, a man was found dead from cyanide poisoning near the Philadelphia airport with a picture of a Nazi aircraft in his wallet. Taped to his abdomen was an enciphered message. In 1912, a book dealer named Wilfrid Voynich came into possession of an illuminated cipher manuscript once belonging to Emperor Rudolf II, who was obsessed with alchemy and the occult. Wartime codebreakers tried--and failed--to unlock the book's secrets, and it remains an enigma to this day. In this lively and entertaining book, Craig Bauer examines these and other vexing ciphers yet to be cracked. Some may reveal the identity of a spy or serial killer, provide the location of buried treasure, or expose a secret society--while others may be elaborate hoaxes. Unsolved! begins by explaining the basics of cryptology, and then explores the history behind an array of unsolved ciphers. It looks at ancient ciphers, ciphers created by artists and composers, ciphers left by killers and victims, Cold War ciphers, and many others. Some are infamous, like the ciphers in the Zodiac letters, while others were created purely as intellectual challenges by figures such as Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman. Bauer lays out the evidence surrounding each cipher, describes the efforts of geniuses and eccentrics--in some cases both--to decipher it, and invites readers to try their hand at puzzles that have stymied so many others. Unsolved! takes readers from the ancient world to the digital age, providing an amazing tour of many of history's greatest unsolved ciphers"--

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 2620 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063357417

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Jan Rogozinski
Publisher : Conway Maritime Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0851777929

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Honour Among Thieves by Jan Rogozinski Pdf

The incredible true story of an island inhabited and ruled by pirates- the real 'Treasure Island'. Reassesses many commonly held myths about pirates and how they lived. Draws from previously unexamined sources, such as anthropological studies and contains a sixteen page plate section.

Author : Mauritius Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112032143536

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Report of the Mauritius Institute for ... by Mauritius Institute Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Colonial Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Seychelles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105013620856

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Annual Report on Seychelles by Great Britain. Colonial Office Pdf

Author : Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Books
ISBN : UCAL:$B227614

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Auction Catalogs, Hodgson's Rooms by Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Commonwealth Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105071572940

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Seychelles by Great Britain. Commonwealth Office Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Seychelles
ISBN : IND:30000132567946

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Seychelles by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mauritius. Archives Department,Auguste Toussaint
Publisher : Port Louis : Esclapon
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Mauritius
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073341245

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Bibliography of Mauritius, 1502-1954 by Mauritius. Archives Department,Auguste Toussaint Pdf

En la cubierta "every relevant piece or set of printed, manuscript and cartographic material relative to the island of Mauritius and its dependencies from 1502 to the end of 1954, whether available in Mauritius itself or in other countries." Many references are also made to the Seychelles as well as to the islands of Reunion and Madagascar.

Author : National Library (Seychelles)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132108346

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National Bibliography of Seychelles: 1700-1984 by National Library (Seychelles) Pdf