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
Charles Kingsley
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Lambert Barnard, Henri Rousseau and Eugène Delacroix. Devon in the reign of Elizabeth: a Bideford boy goes to sea after the Spaniards, from the Caribbean to the Armada. Kingsley wrote it at speed during the Crimean War and dedicated it to a rajah and a colonial bishop; it sold enormously and gave a seaside town its name. The convictions of its author, Protestant and imperial, are on every page, and the sea passages are as good as anything in English. Fifty-six plates, from Tintoretto to David Roberts, bring the wider world of the Elizabethan sea story into the book.
Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Lambert Barnard, Henri Rousseau and Eugène Delacroix. Devon in the reign of Elizabeth: a Bideford boy goes to sea after the Spaniards, from the Caribbean to the Armada. Kingsley wrote it at speed during the Crimean War and dedicated it to a raj...
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Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) was a country parson, Christian Socialist, Regius Professor of History at Cambridge and tutor to the Prince of Wales. He wrote for sanitary reform and against the sweating of tailors, and made his best books out of the two things he loved most, the sea and natural history.
Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) was a country parson, Christian Socialist, Regius Professor of History at Cambridge and tutor to the Prince of Wales. He wrote for sanitary reform and against the sweating of tailors, and made his best books out of the two things he loved most, the sea and natural his...
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