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Languages : en
Pages : 14
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The Pirate's Isle, Or, The Death of Conrad the Corsair, Describing the Rendezvous of the Pirates, and Their Long Success ...
Author: The Pirate's Isle, Or the Death of Conrad the Corsair, Describing the Rendezvous of the Pirates ... the Overthrow of the Pirates ... the Death of Medora ... and the Capture of the Corsair ... To which are Added, the Skeleton of the Wreck, Etc
Author: The Pirate's Isle, Or the Death of Conrad the Corsair, Describing the Rendezvous of the Pirates ... the Overthrow of the Pirates ... the Death of Medora ... and the Capture of the Corsair ... To which are Added, the Skeleton of the Wreck, Etc
Author: PIRATE.Conrad, the Corsair: Or, the Pirates' Isle
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron ByronPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 35
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Conrad, the Corsair, Or, The Pirates' Isle
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron ByronPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 16
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The Corsair
Author: Baron George Gordon Byron ByronPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230419657
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 edition. Excerpt: ... Silent but quick they stoop, his chains unbind; Once more his limbs are free as mountain wind! But on his heavy heart such sadness sate, 1G10 As if they there transferred that iron weight. No words are uttered--at her sign, a door Reveals the secret passage to the shore; The city lies behind--they speed, they reaclv The glad waves dancing on the yellow beach; And Conrad following, at her beck, obeyed, Nor cared he now if re scued or betrayed; Resistance were as useless as if Seyd Yet lived to view the doom his ire decreed. xiii. Embarked, the sail unfurled, the light breeze blew--How much had Conrad's memory to review! 1C21 Sunk he in contemplation, till the cape Where last he anchored reared its giant shape. Ah!--since that fatal night, though brief the time, Had swept an age of terror, grief, and crime. As its far shadow frowned above the mast, He veiled his face, and sorrowed as he past; He thought of all--Gonsalvo and his band, His fleeting triumph and his failing hand; He thought on her afar, his lonely bride: 1630 He turned and saw--Gulnare, the homicide! xiv. She watched his features till she could not bear Their freezing aspect and averted air, And that strange fierceness foreign to her eye, Fell quenched in tears, too late to shed or dry. She knelt beside him and his hand she prest, " Thou may'st forgive though Alla's self detest; " But for that deed of darkness what wert thou? " Reproach me--but not yet--Oh! spare me now! " I am not what I seem--this fearful night 1C40 " My brain bewildered--do not madden quite! " If I had never loved--though less my guilt, " Thou hadst not lived to--hate me--if thou wilt." xv. She wrongs his thoughts, they more himself upbraid Than her, though undesigned, the wretch he made; But speechless...
Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil
Author: Worrall Reed CarterPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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The Dutch in the Caribbean and on the Wild Coast 1580-1680
Author: Cornelis CH. GoslingaPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 1947372734
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area in prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.
The Boy Knight
Author: G. A. HentyPublisher: 1st World Publishing
ISBN: 1421811405
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Readers have ringside seats to historical events as they follow an English lad to the Holy Land as part of King Richard's crusading army, experience the excitement of battle, and share the boy's perilous adventures during his return trip across Europe to England.
A Buccaneer's Atlas
Author: Basil RingrosePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520054103
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
On July 29, 1681, a band of English buccaneers that had been terrorizing Spanish possessions on the west coast of the Americas captured a Spanish ship, from which they obtained a derrotero, or book of charts and sailing directions. When they arrived back in England, the Spanish ambassador demanded that the buccaneers be brought to trial. The derrotero was ordered to be brought to King Charles II, who apparently appreciated its great intelligence value. The buccaneers were acquitted, to the chagrin of the king of Spain, who had the English ambassador expelled from the court at Madrid on a seemingly trumped-up charge. The derrotero was subsequently translated, and one of the buccaneers, Basil Ringrose, added a text to the compilation and information to the Spanish charts. The resulting atlas, consisting of 106 pages of charts and 106 pages of text, is published in full for the first time in this volume. Covering the coast from California to Tierra del Fuego, the Galapagos, and Juan Fernandes, Basil Ringrose's south sea waggoner is a rich source of geographical information, with observations on navigational, physical, biological, and cultural features as well as on ethnography, customs, and folklore. After almost exactly three hundred years, this secret atlas is now made available to libraries and individuals. The editors have provided an extensive introduction on historical, geographical, and navigational aspects of the atlas, as well as annotations to the charts and text, and they have plotted the coverage of the charts on modern map bases. On July 29, 1681, a band of English buccaneers that had been terrorizing Spanish possessions on the west coast of the Americas captured a Spanish ship, from which they obtained a derrotero, or book of charts and sailing directions. When they arrived back in England, the Spanish ambassador demanded that the buccaneers be brought to trial. The derrotero was ordered to be brought to King Charles II, who apparently appreciated its great intelligence value. The buccaneers were acquitted, to the chagrin of the king of Spain, who had the English ambassador expelled from the court at Madrid on a seemingly trumped-up charge. The derrotero was subsequently translated, and one of the buccaneers, Basil Ringrose, added a text to the compilation and information to the Spanish charts. The resulting atlas, consisting of 106 pages of charts and 106 pages of text, is published in full for the first time in this volume. Covering the coast from California to Tierra del Fuego, the Galapagos, and Juan Fernandes, Basil Ringrose's south sea waggoner is a rich source of geographical information, with observations on navigational, physical, biological, and cultural features as well as on ethnography, customs, and folklore. After almost exactly three hundred years, this secret atlas is now made available to libraries and individuals. The editors have provided an extensive introduction on historical, geographical, and navigational aspects of the atlas, as well as annotations to the charts and text, and they have plotted the coverage of the charts on modern map bases.