The Sailmakers Daughter

Download or read book The Monthly magazine written by Monthly literary register and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Children of the Sun written by David Crookes and published by Big Indian Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search for the legendary Great South Land began in 1557 when Alvaro de Menda a led the first Spanish voyage of exploration deep into the uncharted waters of the South Pacific. In his wake came the English corsairs, Francis Drake and the bloodthirsty Thomas Cavendish, commissioned by Queen Elizabeth to seek out Terra Australis and plunder Spanish interests anywhere in the world. Then came the Dutch and the Portuguese. But Terra Australia eludes them all. Tumara and Naomi are the Children of the Sun, the last of a tribe of South Sea Islanders, forced to flee their idyllic island home by European encroachment into the Pacific. They are the only two people alive who know where Terra Australis lies and they seek sanctuary there, hoping to start a new life.But their hopes are shattered when they are separated and enslaved by Menda a and Drake and taken to Spain and England. Eventually their love and determination reunites them and they return to the South pacific only to find themselves caught in the crossfire of a desperate power struggle by European nations for supremacy in the region and a renewed search for Terra Australis.

Download or read book Fortune's Daughter written by Diana Haviland and published by Five Star (ME). This book was released on 2000 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Vanessa Kenyon arrived in New York in 1847, she was orphaned, alone, and utterly destitute. She never would have dreamed of the future that awaited her, filled with everything life had to offer. . . . Vanessa had loved Logan from the moment she saw him. Now she was his wife. Would love be enough to see them through the difficult years when he strove to build his own shipping fleet? Would devotion withstand the discreet infidelities that threatened to destroy even the most solid marriage?

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by John Aikin and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Autobiography of Ashley Bowen (1728-1813) written by Daniel Vickers and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2006-08-08 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first American sailor known to write his own autobiography, Ashley Bowen remains a valuable storyteller who can speak to today's readers about the maritime world in the age of sail. Ashley Bowen began his seafaring career at the age of eleven. After leaving the sea, Bowen spent the rest of his days as a ship-rigger in Marblehead, Massachusetts. A witness to significant historical events, including the British conquest of Canada and the American Revolution, Ashley Bowen confounds today's audience with his eighteenth-century interpretation of events—an interpretation informed by his deeply religious beliefs and his suspicion of Yankee patriotism. The Broadview edition is the first to present the story of Ashley Bowen as a continuous narrative. Vickers' introduction provides the context for Bowen's life in colonial New England, and additional writings by Ashley Bowen and his Marblehead contemporaries are included. The appendices include Bowen's diary accounts of his experiences in the 1759 British expedition against Quebec, smallpox epidemics, and the American Revolution.

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: