The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous

Author: George Augustus Sala

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-11-13

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13:

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"The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous" is one of the best-known works by the English author and journalist George Augustus Sala. It is an adventure novel that features the travels of Captain Dangerous, who was a soldier, a sailor, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the Moors, a bashaw in the service of the Grand Turk, and lived through a series of other unbelievable events before he finally got back to his home in Hanover Square.

Enterprising Women
Enterprising Women

Author: Kit Candlin

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0820344559

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These recovered histories of entrepreneurial women of color from the colonial Caribbean illustrate an environment in which upward social mobility for freedpeople was possible. Through determination and extensive commercial and kinship connections, these women penetrated British life and created success for themselves and future generations.