Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea

Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea

Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea - Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the...
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Author: Johnston, Charles H. L. (Charles Haven Ladd),1877-1943
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Language: English
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Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea

Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea

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Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea

$104.44 $52.19
Author: Johnston, Charles H. L. (Charles Haven Ladd),1877-1943
Format: eBook
Language: English

Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea - Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure

My dear Boys:The sea stretches away from the land,a vast sheet of unknown possibilities. Now gray, now blue, now slate colored, whipped into a thousand windrows by the storm, churned into a seething mass of frothing spume and careening bubbles, it pleases, lulls, then terrorizes and dismays. Perpetually intervening as a barrier between peoples and their countries, the wild, sobbing ocean rises, falls and roars in agony. It is a stoppage to progress and contact between races of men and warring nations. In the breasts of all souls slumbers the fire of adventure. To penetrate the unknown, to there find excitement, battle, treasure, so that ones future life can be one of ease and indolencefor this men have sacrificed the more stable occupations on land in order to push recklessly across the death-dealing billows. They have battled with the elements; they have suffered dread diseases; they have been tormented with thirst; with a torrid sun and with strange weather; they have sorrowed and they have sinned in order to gain fame, fortune, and renown. On the wide sweep of the ocean, even as on the rolling plateau of the once uninhabited prairie, many a harrowing tragedy has been enacted. These dramas have often had no chronicler,the battle was fought out in the silence of the [Pgviii] watery waste, and there has been no tongue to tell of the solitary conflict and the unseen strife. Of sea fighters there have been many: the pirate, the fillibusterer, the man-of-warsman, and the privateer. The first was primarily a ruffian and, secondarily, a brute, although now and again there were pirates who shone by contrast only. The fillibusterer was also engaged in lawless fighting on the sea and to this service were attracted the more daring and adventurous souls who swarmed about the shipping ports in search of employment and pelf. The man-of-warsman was the legitimate defender of his countrys interests and fought in the open, without fear of death or imprisonment from his own people. The privateersmana combination of all threewas the harpy of the rolling ocean, a vulture preying upon the merchant marine of the enemy to his country, attacking only those weaker than himself, scudding off at the advent of men-of-warsmen, and hovering where the guileless merchantman passed by. The privateersman was a gentleman adventurer, a protected pirate, a social highwayman of the waters. He throve, grew lusty, and prospered,a robber legitimized by the laws of his own people. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 26960
Author: Johnston, Charles H. L. (Charles Haven Ladd)
Release Date: Oct 19, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English

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