Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Catalogue of the New York State Library : 1861. General Library: First Supplement
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Catalogue of the New York State Library: 1861
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
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A Voyage Around the World in the Years, 1740-4
Author: George Anson Baron AnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages around the world
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Wager
Author: David GrannPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471183696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
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.
Catalogue of the New York State Library: 1855--Catalogue of the New York State Library: 1861
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
Book Description
Catalogue of the New-York State Library
Author: New York State Library (Albany).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
Book Description
A Voyage round the World in the Years 1740-1744
Author: George AnsonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734080088
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: A Voyage round the World in the Years 1740-1744 by George Anson
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: John Russell SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV
Author: Baron George Anson AnsonPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
"A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV" by Baron George Anson Anson Admiral of the Fleet George Anson, 1st Baron Anson was a Royal Navy officer. Anson served as a junior officer during the War of the Spanish Succession and then saw active service against Spain at the Battle of Cape Passaro during the War of the Quadruple Alliance. In this book, he narrates his adventures traveling around the world, the people he met, and the different customs he encountered.
Catalogue of the New York State Library ...
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
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