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Westward ho! : or, The voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, knight of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious Majesty, Queen Elizabeth / rendered into modern English by Charles Kingsley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875.
- Series:
- World's greatest literature (Spencer Press)
- The World's greatest literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sailors--Fiction.
- Sailors.
- Pirates--Fiction.
- Pirates.
- Drake, Francis, approximately 1540-1596--Fiction.
- Drake, Francis.
- Armada, 1588--Fiction.
- Armada, 1588.
- Great Britain--History--Elizabeth, 1558-1603--Fiction.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--History, Naval--Tudors, 1485-1603--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Adventure fiction.
- Sea stories.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 568 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Other Title:
- Voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, knight
- Place of Publication:
- [Reading Pa.] : Spencer Press, [1936]
- Summary:
- Set during the reign of Elizabeth I, Kingsley's novel follows the adventures of Amyas Leigh as he battles pirates on the high seas, hunts for treasure in the Caribbean, sets out to rescue his beloved Rose Salterne, and joins with Francis Drake to confront the Spanish Armada.
- Contents:
- How Mr Oxenham saw the white bird
- How Amyas came home the first time
- Of two gentlemen of Wales, and how they hunted with the hounds, and yet ran with the deer
- The two ways of being crost in love
- Clovelly Court in the olden time
- The Coombes of the far west
- The truth and tragical history of Mr John Oxenham of Plymouth
- How the Noble Brotherhood of the Rose was founded
- How Amyas kept his Christmas day
- How the mayor of Bideford baited his hood with his own flesh
- How Eustace Leigh met the Pope's legate
- How Bideford Bridge dined at Annery House
- How the Golden Hind came home again
- How Salvation Yeo slew the king of the Gubbings
- How Mr John Brimblecombe understood the nature of an oath
- The most chivalrous adventure of the good ship Rose
- How they came to Barbados, and found no men therein
- How they took the pearls at Margarita
- What befell at La Guayra
- Spanish bloodhounds and English mastiffs
- How they took the communion under the tree at Higuerote
- The inquisition in the Indies
- The banks of the Meta
- How Amyas was tempted of the devil
- How they took the gold-train
- How they took the great galleon
- How Salvation Yeo found his little maid again
- How Amyas came home the third time
- How the Virginia fleet was stopped by the Queen's command
- How the admiral John Hawkins testified against Croakers
- The great Armada
- How Amyas threw his sword into the sea
- How Amyas let the apple fall.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Lowell and Richard Booth.
- OCLC:
- 2494074
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