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Author : John Masefield,Amazon.com (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Buccaneers
ISBN : OCLC:861967785
Author : John Masefield
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1722199059
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. With a Description of the Buccaneers and a Short Account of Old-Time Ships and Sailors not to leave "before he had built his Pinnaces," and therefore, as soon as the ships were moored, he ordered the pieces to be brought ashore "for the Carpenters to set up." The rest of the company was set to the building of a fort upon the beach by the cutting down of trees, "and haling them together with great Pullies and halsers." The fort was built in the form of a pentagon, with a sort of sea-gate opening on the bay, for the easy launching of the pinnaces. This gate could be closed at night by the drawing of a log across the opening. They dug no trench, but cleared the ground instead, so that for twenty yards all round the stockhouse there was nothing to hinder a marksman or afford cover to an enemy. Beyond that twenty yards the forest closed in, with its wall of living greenery, with trees "of a marvellous height" tangled over with the brilliant blossoms of many creepers. The writer of the account seems to have been one of the building party that sweated the logs into position. "The wood of those trees, We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Author : John Masefield
Publisher : New York : [s.n.]
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Buccaneers
ISBN : UIUC:30112082281517
Author : Masefield John
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1318847249
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Author : John Masefield
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547232933
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "On the Spanish Main; Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien" by John Masefield. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Masefield
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1359231706
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Author : John Masefield
Publisher : Pinnacle Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1374974404
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 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. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : John Masefield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Buccaneers
ISBN : UCAL:B4497851
Author : John Masefield
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1333411324
Excerpt from On the Spanish Main, or Some English Forays on the Isthmus of Darien: With a Description of the Buccaneers and a Short Account of Old-Time Ships and Sailors Francis drake, the first Englishman to make himself redoubtable to the Spaniards on the Spanish Main, was born near Tavistock about the year I 545. He was sent to sea, as a lad, aboard a Channel coaster engaged in trade with the eastern counties, France and Zeeland. When he was eighteen years of age he joined his cousin, John Hawkins, then a great and wealthy merchant, engaged in the slave trade. Four years later he sailed with Hawkins on a memorable trading voyage to the Spanish Main. On this occasion he commanded a small vessel of fifty tons. 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.
Author : John Masefield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 140997538X
John Edward Masefield, OM, (1878-1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death. He is remembered as the author of the classic children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights. By the age of 24, Masefield's poems were being published in periodicals and his first collected works, Salt- Water Ballads was published in 1902. Masefield then wrote two novels, Captain Margaret (1908) and Multitude and Solitude (1909). In 1911, after a long drought of poem writing, he composed The Everlasting Mercy (1911). When World War I began Masefield went to the Western Front as a medical orderly, later publishing his own account of his experiences. In 1921, Masefield received an Honorary Doctorate of Literature from Oxford University. He also wrote a very large number of dramatic pieces. Most of his dramas were based on themes of Christianity. Amongst his other works are Martin Hyde: The Duke's Messenger (1910), Jim Davis (1911) and Right Royal (1920).
Author : John Masefield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1006877177
John Edward Masefield OM (1 June 1878 - 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights, and the poems The Everlasting Mercy and "Sea-Fever". After an unhappy education at the King's School in Warwick, where he was a boarder between 1888 and 1891, he left to board HMS Conway, both to train for a life at sea and to break his addiction to reading, of which his aunt thought little. While he was on the ship he listened to the stories told about sea lore, and decided that he was to become a writer and story-teller himself.
Author : Arthur Guiterman,Stuart Pratt Sherman,Laurence Stallings,Laurence Stallings Arthur Guiterman,John Farrar Stuart Sherman
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547155591
This is an account of the celebrated English author, John Masefield's, life. It also contains some evaluation of some of his poetry and contributions by other writers, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Laurence Stallings and John Farrar.
Author : Leon Hopkins
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781399093675
Economic warfare is not a new phenomenon. In the protectionist climate of the seventeenth century, trade embargoes, exclusions and boycotts were common. England was among the most active nations when it came to using economic clout to get its own way. It did so to force Scotland to accept an Act of Union: to submerge its independence within a United Kingdom governed from London. Instrumental in this attack upon the Scots was William Dampier, the principal subject of this book. He was an extraordinary man. A farmer’s son, he became the most traveled man of his generation. He was a pirate, a brute and a devious sociopath. But he was also a scientist and a talented writer who gave his readers accurate descriptions of previously unknown places, peoples, plants and animals. He was a daring explorer and an expert navigator who mapped coastlines and logged wind patterns and ocean currents. He led the first Royal Navy expedition to Australia, over 70 years before Captain Cook’s arrival. Dampier’s writing made him famous, but not rich. It allowed him to rub shoulders with the leading men of his day; scientists such as Robert Hooke, Edmund Halley and Hans Sloane, businessmen such as Sir John Houblon (first governor of the Bank of England) and William Paterson, politicians such as James Vernon and Charles Montagu (first Earl of Halifax), and Admiralty men such as Admiral Sir George Rooke and Samuel Pepys. And Dampier was in the pay of the English Government; an agent known to Queen Anne, in which capacity he engineered a financial disaster and political drubbing for Scotland.
Author : Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor
Publisher : London : Methuen
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Factory laws and legislation
ISBN : UOM:39015003850156
Author : Bithia Mary Croker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000294608