Author: Officer of the SquadronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A Voyage to the South-Seas
Author: Officer of the SquadronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
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
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
The Wager
Author: David GrannPublisher: Doubleday
ISBN: 0385534272
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire. A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, TIME, Smithsonian, NPR, Vulture, Kirkus Reviews “Riveting...Reads like a thriller, tackling a multilayered history—and imperialism—with gusto.” —Time "A tour de force of narrative nonfiction.” —The Wall Street Journal On January 28, 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 the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as “the prize of all the oceans,” it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly 3,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. But then ... six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes – they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that 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. The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann’s recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O’Brian, his portrayal of the castaways’ desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann’s work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound.
A Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by the Reverend Alexander Dyce
Author: Dyce Collection: Note. Alexander Dyce. By J. Forster. Manuscripts. Printed books, A to K
Author: South Kensington Museum. Dyce collectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Music, Books and Theatre in Eighteenth-Century Exton
Author: Colin TimmsPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003860079
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
This book establishes the cultural background to the productions of Milton’s Comus that were staged in the 1740s by Baptist Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough, at Exton Hall, his country seat in the East Midlands of England. The author reveals that Handel’s visit in 1745 occurred in a richer and fuller context of cultural interests among the Noel family. Most of the music at Exton was selected from existing works by Handel, but the four movements of the finale were new, written by the composer specifically for the occasion. The study is based on receipted bills and other documents in an archival collection of Noel family papers that provide evidence of the Earl’s purchase of books and music and of the musical and theatrical activities undertaken on his Exton estate. The author discusses the Earl’s interests in music, books and theatre, indicating a belief in performance as a valuable and enjoyable experience and as a vehicle for the education of the young. In addition to creating a context for Comus, this book sheds light on cultural life in a mid-eighteenth-century English country house and how the Earl’s productions made a significant contribution to the cultural life of the East Midlands. The book will be of great value to cultural musicologists, historians and Handelians, as the documentation sheds a huge amount of light on a variety of cultural practices in eighteenth-century England.
The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768–1820, Volume 7
Author: Neil ChambersPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000560775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
Following his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scientists and explorers. His correspondence shows how he developed effective working links with the British Admiralty and with the generation of naval officers who sailed after Cook.
The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages
Author: University of California, San Diego. University LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Author: Samuel Halkett