Westward ho!: or the voyages of Sir Amyas Leigh, knt. of Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty
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ISBN10: 1537785982
ISBN13: 9781537785981
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 20 2016
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.74
Height: 0.82 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781537785981
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 20 2016
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.74
Height: 0.82 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
This article is about the novel by Charles Kingsley. For the seaside village in Devon, see Westward Ho!Westward Ho! is an 1855 British historical novel by Charles Kingsley. The novel was based on the adventures of Elizabethan corsair Amyas Preston (Amyas Leigh in the novel), who sets sail with Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh and other privateers to the New World, where they battle with the Spanish Set initially in Bideford in North Devon during the reign of Elizabeth I, Westward Ho! follows the adventures of Amyas Leigh (Amyas Preston), an unruly child who as a young man follows Francis Drake to sea. Amyas loves local beauty Rose Salterne, as does nearly everyone else; much of the novel involves the kidnap of Rose by a Spaniard
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