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From the coral reefs of the Barbados to the jungles and fabled cities of the Orinoco and on to the great sea battle with the Spanish Armada, this vibrant novel captures the daring spirit of the Elizabethan adventurers who sailed with Sir Francis Drake. Full of the drama of that age of exploration, discovery, and conquest, Kingsley has truly brought this colorful era to life.A Blackstone Audio production.… (más)
Not really all that bad a book, as Amyas Leigh goes off privateering against the Spanish in the New World, seeks vengeance against the Spaniard who "corrupted" Amyas's true love Rose of Torridge, and finally becomes a raging Ahabian lunatic in a post-Armada battle until he is stricken blind, repents, and at last becomes domesticated like Rochester!
As for the nature descriptions, Westward Ho! definitely can't hold a candle to Kingsley's Hypatia, but the plot does have a rather childish excitement to it that in the jungle scenes somehow reminds me of Rider Haggard. It's also chock-full of anti-Catholicism as well as condescending treatment of Africans and Native Americans, which makes it understandable that it would have been subjected to "cancel culture" by the time of the early 20th Century.
Kingsley, ironically considering his strong anti-Catholicism, may be most noted today as a footnote to John Henry (Cardinal) Newman. It was Kingsley's intemperate magazine/journal foray of letter-writing versus Newman that led to Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua.
I also recall (though I don't have the source right at my fingertips) that, after reading Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte, Kingsley remarked (sympathetically toward the sisters) something to the effect that, considering what a horrid upbringing they'd had, their crudeness was understandable.
Believe it or not, as a younger man and before his ministry in the Evangelical wing of the Church of England, Kingsley was drawn to Chartism. ( )
Action-packed and absolutely memorable! A difficult read but it becomes easier as you go. VERY very helpful ,historically speaking, and a book I am excited about.
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 (Scribner's Illustrated Classics)
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To The Rajah Sir James Brooke, K.C.B. and George Augustus Selwyn, D.D, Bishop of New Zealand
This book is dedicated by one who (unknown to them) has no other method of expressing his admiration and reverence for their characters. That type of English virtue, at once manful and godly, practical and enthusiastic, prudent and self-sacrificing, which he has tried to depict in these pages, they have exhibited in a form even purer and more heroic than that in which he has drest it, and than that in which it was exhibited by the worthies whom Elizabeth, without distinction of rank or age, gathered round her in the ever glorious wars of her great reign.
C.K.
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All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon, must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge where salmon wait for autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west.
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From that hour Ayacanora's power of song returned to her; and day by day, year after year, her voice rose up within that happy home, and soared, as on a skylark's wings, into the highest heaven, bearing with it the peaceful thoughts of the blind giant back to the Paradises of the West, in the wake of the heroes who from that time forth sailed out to colonise another and a vaster England, to the heaven-prospered cry of Westward Ho!
From the coral reefs of the Barbados to the jungles and fabled cities of the Orinoco and on to the great sea battle with the Spanish Armada, this vibrant novel captures the daring spirit of the Elizabethan adventurers who sailed with Sir Francis Drake. Full of the drama of that age of exploration, discovery, and conquest, Kingsley has truly brought this colorful era to life.A Blackstone Audio production.
As for the nature descriptions, Westward Ho! definitely can't hold a candle to Kingsley's Hypatia, but the plot does have a rather childish excitement to it that in the jungle scenes somehow reminds me of Rider Haggard. It's also chock-full of anti-Catholicism as well as condescending treatment of Africans and Native Americans, which makes it understandable that it would have been subjected to "cancel culture" by the time of the early 20th Century.
Kingsley, ironically considering his strong anti-Catholicism, may be most noted today as a footnote to John Henry (Cardinal) Newman. It was Kingsley's intemperate magazine/journal foray of letter-writing versus Newman that led to Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua.
I also recall (though I don't have the source right at my fingertips) that, after reading Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte, Kingsley remarked (sympathetically toward the sisters) something to the effect that, considering what a horrid upbringing they'd had, their crudeness was understandable.
Believe it or not, as a younger man and before his ministry in the Evangelical wing of the Church of England, Kingsley was drawn to Chartism. ( )