Author: John Paul JonesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
History of Paul Jones, the Pirate
The History of Paul Jones, the Notorious Sea Pirate, During the American War. [A Chap Book.]
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Author: John Paul JonesHistory of Paul Jones the Pirate. (Black hole of Calcutta.) [A chap-book.]
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Author: John Paul Jones
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Category : Admirals
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
A biography of John Paul Jones from his early days s a ship's boy, to his naval career and activities during the Revolutionary War.
History of Paul Jones, the Pirate
Author: John Paul Jones
Author: Armstrong SperryPublisher: Young Voyageur
ISBN: 0760352526
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A classic biography of John Paul Jones for young readers in a new, illustrated edition. Called a pirate by the British and a patriot by the Americans, John Paul Jones was a brilliant sea captain, a true American hero, and the father of the U.S. Navy. With this classic biography for young readers by Newbery Medal winner Armstrong Sperry, readers will imagine themselves on deck at the side of the great captain, engaging enemy ships in close combat. Jones became an invaluable asset to the rebellious American colonists in their fight for independence when he offered his services to the newly established Continental Navy. In a barely seaworthy ship, the Bonhomme Richard, named in honor of his benefactor Benjamin Franklin, Jones harassed and captured British ships and took cargoes desperately needed by the impoverished rebels. Sperry draws a full and brilliant portrait of America's first naval hero.
Paul Jones, His Exploits in English Seas During 1778-1780
Author: Don Carlos SeitzPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
John Paul Jones
Author: Evan ThomasPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451603991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The New York Times bestseller from master biographer Evan Thomas brings to life the tumultuous story of the father of the American Navy. John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey and C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, “in harm’s way.” Evan Thomas’s minute-by-minute re-creation of the bloodbath between Jones’s Bonhomme Richard and the British man-of-war Serapis off the coast of England on an autumn night in 1779 is as gripping a sea battle as can be found in any novel. Drawing on Jones’s correspondence with some of the most significant figures of the American Revolution—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson—Thomas’s biography teaches us that it took fighters as well as thinkers, men driven by dreams of personal glory as well as high-minded principle, to break free of the past and start a new world. Jones’s spirit was classically American.
Paul Jones
Author: Don Carlos SeitzPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Author: John Paul Jones