The title of this book, SEA STORIES, tells the entire tale. Enclosed within these 276 pages you will find excerpts of some of the most famous nautical stories of all time.
Authors whose names you've known your whole life are here: Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, J. Fenimore Cooper, Victor Hugo, Herman Melville and W. Clark Russell to name just a few. Stories such as The Mutiny of the Bounty, Moby Dick, The SwissFamily Robinson, Two Years Before the Mast, David Copperfield, Treasure Island, TheLife and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and...
The title of this book, SEA STORIES, tells the entire tale. Enclosed within these 276 pages you will find excerpts of some of the ...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Crusoe sets sail from the Queen's Dock in Hull on a sea voyage in August 1651, against the wishes of his parents, who want him to pursue a career, possibly in law. After a tumultuous journey where his ship is wrecked in a storm, his lust for the sea remains so strong that he sets out to sea again. This journey, too, ends in disaster, as the ship is taken over by Sale pirates (the Sale Rovers) and Crusoe is enslaved by a Moor. Two years later, he escapes in a boat with a boy named Xury; a...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Crusoe sets sail from the Queen's Dock in Hull on a se...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Defoe published the follow-up to his best-seller Robinson Crusoe just five months after the first book hit the streets, in a surprisingly modern marketing effort to cash in on the name recognition. Surprisingly modern, that is, given that both books were published in 1719, just one hundred years after Shakespeare and the King James Version of the Bible set the standard for the English language for the next 300 years. The book starts with the statement about Crusoe's marriage in England....
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Defoe published the follow-up to his best-seller Ro...
The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (now more commonly rendered as "The Further adventures of Robinson Crusoe") is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719. Just as in its significantly more popular predecessor, Robinson Crusoe (1719), the first edition credits the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author. It was published under the considerably longer original title: The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being the Second and Last Part of His Life, And of the Strange Surprising Accounts of his Travels Round three Parts of the Globe. Although intended to be...
The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (now more commonly rendered as "The Further adventures of Robinson Crusoe") is a novel by Daniel Defoe, firs...
The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a novel by Daniel Defoe, originally published in 1720. It has been re-published multiple times since, some of which times were in 1840 1927,1972 and 2008.Captain Singleton is believed to have been partly inspired by the exploits of the English pirate Henry Every, who operated in the late 17th century. The narrative describes the life of the Englishman, Singleton, stolen from a well-to-do family as a child and raised by Gypsies, eventually making his way to sea. The former half of the book concerns Singleton's crossing of...
The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a novel by Daniel Defoe, originally published in 1720. It has been re-published m...
Colonel Jack is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. The considerably longer title under which it was originally published is The History and Remarkable Life of the truly Honourable Col. Jacque, commonly call'd Col. Jack, who was Born a Gentleman, put 'Prentice to a Pick-Pocket, was Six and Twenty Years a Thief, and then Kidnapp'd to Virginia, Came back a Merchant; was Five times married to Four Whores; went into the Wars, behav'd bravely, got Preferment, was made Colonel of a Regiment, came over, and fled with the Chevalier, is still abroad compleating a Life of Wonders, and...
Colonel Jack is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. The considerably longer title under which it was originally published is The History...
The world is so taken up of late with novels and romances, that it will be hard for a private history to be taken for genuine, where the names and other circumstances of the person are concealed, and on this account we must be content to leave the reader to pass his own opinion upon the ensuing sheet, and take it just as he pleases. The author is here supposed to be writing her own history, and in the very beginning of her account she gives the reasons why she thinks fit to conceal her true name, after which there is no occasion to say any more about that. It is true that the original of this...
The world is so taken up of late with novels and romances, that it will be hard for a private history to be taken for genuine, where the names and oth...
He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and so my companions always called me. I had two elder brothers, one of whom was lieutenant-colonel to an English regiment of foot in Flanders, formerly commanded by the famous Colonel Lockhart, and was killed at the battle near...
He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were n...
Robinson Crusoe is one of the most famous adventure books in the world. It was written by Daniel Defoe in 1791 and is considered the first English novel as such. It tells the story of the young Robinson Crusoe who, disobeying the wishes of his father, embarks on a long voyage as a sailor aboard a business ship. But a great storm abates the ship in which it traveled, wrecking to an uninhabited island near Venezuela. Alone and without means of escape, they will spend their adventures in the island in which it stays during 28 years. Robinson Crusoe is part of the literature of the eighteenth...
Robinson Crusoe is one of the most famous adventure books in the world. It was written by Daniel Defoe in 1791 and is considered the first English nov...
