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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)
En tiempos de Su Grandiosa Majestad, Isabel I, Gran Bretaña le disputa a España el dominio del mar. Piratas como Francis Drake obtienen los favores de su Reina atacando a los barcos españoles procedentes de América. Esta es la historia de Sir Amyas Leigh, uno de esos jóvenes caballeros, que se inicia en la piratería emprendiendo viaje hasta el Caribe para enfrentarse a la Armada de Felipe II, medir su valor con las tropas del enemigo y salvaguardar la honra de su amada Rose Salterne, perdida entre los brazos de don Guzmán de Soto.
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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.
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