Bully Hayes, Buccaneer
Author : Louis Becke
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 1913
Category : English literature
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Author : Louis Becke
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 1913
Category : English literature
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Author : Frank Clune
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 29,62 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Louis Becke
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,43 MB
Release : 1923
Category : English literature
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Author : James A. Michener
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 32,85 MB
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0812986865
In a thrilling collection of nonfiction adventure stories, James A. Michener returns to the most dazzling place on Earth: the islands that inspired Tales of the South Pacific. Co-written with A. Grove Day, Rascals in Paradise offers portraits of ten scandalous men and women, some infamous and some overlooked, including Sam Comstock, a mutinous sailor whose delusions of grandeur became a nightmare; Will Mariner, a golden-haired youth who used his charm to win over his captors; and William Bligh, the notorious HMS Bounty captain who may not have been the monster history remembers him as. From lifelong buccaneers to lapsed noblemen, in Michener and Day’s capable hands these rogues become the stuff of legend. Praise for Rascals in Paradise “The best book about those far-scattered islands that has appeared in a long time . . . a portfolio of rare and ruthless personalities that is calculated to make the curliest hair stand straight on end.”—The New York Times “[Combines] research and scholarship (A. Grove Day was a professor at the University of Hawaii) with a gift for spinning a yarn and depicting character (Michener, journalist and novelist, needs no introduction).”—Kirkus Reviews
Author : Geoffrey Wolff
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 25,84 MB
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307745457
In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon followed, and a decade later, with his finances failing, he set off alone once more—never to be seen again. In this definitive portrait of an icon of adventure, Geoffrey Wolff describes, with authority and admiration, a life that would see hurricanes, shipwrecks, pirate attacks, cholera, smallpox, and no shortage of personal tragedy.
Author : William Brown Churchward
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Page : 430 pages
File Size : 36,54 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Samoa
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Author : Steele Rudd
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 31,74 MB
Release : 1916
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Author : Edward Dyson
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 24,96 MB
Release : 1922
Category : English literature
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Author : Thomas Edward Spencer
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 36,3 MB
Release : 1920
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Author : Steele Rudd
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,62 MB
Release : 1922
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