A Modern Buccaneer by Rolf Boldrewood
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"A Modern Buccaneer" by Rolf Boldrewood is a novel published in 1894. Set in the South Pacific, it follows seventeen-year-old Hilary Telfer who leaves Sydney to pursue a life at sea. Written as an autobiography, the story chronicles his adventures aboard the ship of the notorious Bully Hayes, an American captain and the "Buccaneer" of the title. The novel explores island trading and the controversial practice of "blackbirding" that dominated the era,
offering readers a vivid portrait of South Sea island life. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Boldrewood, Rolf, 1826-1915 |
|---|---|
| Title | A Modern Buccaneer |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modern_Buccaneer |
| Credits |
Produced by David Edwards, Erica Pfister-Altschul and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 76.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Sea stories |
| Subject | Oceania -- Fiction |
| Subject | South Pacific Ocean -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 35431 |
| Release Date | Feb 28, 2011 |
| Last Update | Jan 7, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 496 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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