Author |
Wood, Eric |
LoC No. |
16014601
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Title |
The Boy's Book of the Sea
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Original Publication |
United States: Funk & Wagnalls Company,1915.
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Contents |
Naval warfare, old and new -- The men who discovered the world -- Some early buccaneers -- Morgan: buccaneer and governor -- Under the Jolly Roger -- Blockade running -- Adventures on a desert island -- Adrift with madmen -- Francis Drake's raid on the Spanish Main -- A gallant fisherman -- Fire at sea -- Romance of treasure-trove -- Adventures under sea -- Chasing pirates in the China Sea -- A voyage of danger -- The guardians of the coast -- Great naval disasters -- Incidents in the slave trade -- A race to succour -- A tragedy of the South Pole -- Stories of the lifeboat -- Tales of the smugglers -- Modern corsairs -- The wreckers -- The tragedy of a wonder ship [the "Titanic"] -- Mysteries of the sea.
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Credits |
Brian Coe, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
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Language |
English |
LoC Class |
PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
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Subject |
Sea stories
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Category |
Text |
EBook-No. |
67614 |
Release Date |
Mar 13, 2022 |
Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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