A Voyage to the South-Seas
Author: Officer of the Squadron
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Published: 1744
Total Pages: 420
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Author: Officer of the Squadron
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Published: 1744
Total Pages: 420
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Published: 1744
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: OFFICER OF THE SQUADRON.
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Published: 2018-04-19
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9781379632191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T209374 London: printed by and for the proprietors of the Yeovil Mercury, 1744. 408p., plates: port.; 8°
Author: Officer of the Squadron
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Published: 1745
Total Pages: 54
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George ANSON (Baron Anson.)
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Published: 1744
Total Pages: 621
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Officer of the Fleet
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Published: 1744
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Anson Baron Anson
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Published: 1744
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Anson Baron Anson
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 424
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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2019-09-25
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 3734080088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original: A Voyage round the World in the Years 1740-1744 by George Anson
Author: David Grann
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2023-04-18
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0385534272
DOWNLOAD EBOOK#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.