Author: John William MarshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
A Memoir of Allen F. Gardiner, Commander, R.N.
Author: John William MarshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate
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Author: The Christian Observer
Author: A Memoir of Allen F. Gardiner, Commander, R.N
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780371384602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
In Pursuit of the Essex
Author: Ben HughesPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473881102
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
On 26 October 1812, during the war between Britain and the United States, the frigate USS Essex set sail on the most remarkable voyage in the early history of the US navy. After rounding Cape Horn, she proceeded to systematically destroy the British South Seas whaling fleet. When news reached the Royal Navys South American station at Rio de Janeiro, HMS Phoebe was sent off in pursuit. So began one of the most extraordinary chases in naval history.In Pursuit of the Essex follows the adventures of both hunter and hunted as well as a host of colourful characters that crossed their paths. Traitorous Nantucket whalers, Chilean revolutionaries, British spies, a Peruvian viceroy and bellicose Polynesian islanders all make an appearance. The brilliant yet vainglorious Captain Porter of the Essex, his nemesis Captain James Hillyar of the Phoebe, and two young midshipmen, David Farragut and Allen Gardiner, are the principal narrators. From giant-tortoise turning expeditions on the Galapagos to the perils of rounding Cape Horn, via desperate skirmishes with spear-toting natives on the Marquesas and a defeated duellist bleeding his life out onto black, volcanic sands, the reader is immersed in the fantastical world of the British and American seamen who struggled for supremacy over the worlds oceans in the sunset years of the age of sail. Ben Hughess graphic account is a work of non-fiction, yet reads like a novel, from the opening view of the Essex preparing for her cruise on the Delaware River to the storys bloody denouement in Valparaiso Bay.
Hunting the Essex
Author: Midshipman Allen GardinerPublisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1473826675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
In February 1813 the British frigate Phoebe set out on a secret mission that would involve sailing halfway around the world to attack American settlements in the Pacific Northwest. The United States, frustrated at the treatment of its shipping by the combatants in the Napoleonic Wars, had finally opened hostilities against the British in the previous June. From the American perspective the War of 1812 began with disasters in its invasion of Canada, but against all expectations the infant US Navy had scored significant victories at sea. The most strategically significant of these was the campaign by the frigate USS Essex, which had almost annihilated the lucrative British whaling trade in the south Pacific. Therefore, Phoebe was diverted to hunt down and destroy this highly successful commerce-raider. After an epic search, Phoebe tracked her prey to neutral Valparaiso where the American frigate was blockaded and,in a very bloody battle, eventually captured. The American captain, David Porter, published a self-serving account of his actions which ever since has mired the battle in controversy, so this British naval eyewitness account is an important counter-balance. It is one of the lesser-known campaigns of a war which is currently celebrating its bicentenary, but its inherent drama inspired the plot of Patrick O'Brian's novel The Far Side of the World, although in its movie adaptation Master & Commander the American frigate is transformed into a French privateer.
European Encounters with the Yamana People of Cape Horn, Before and After Darwin
Author: Anne ChapmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521513790
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 745
Book Description
A narration of dramas played out from 1578 to 2000 in Tierra del Fuego by the native Yamana, Darwin, explorers, sealers, whalers and missionaries.
Catalogue of the London Library
Author: London LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle
Author: The Church of England Magazine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Report and speeches at the [third] annual meeting of the Church Pastoral-aid Society, May 8, 1838.