Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates - Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the...
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Author: Pyle, Howard,1853-1911
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Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

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Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

$105.15 $52.55
Author: Pyle, Howard,1853-1911
Format: eBook
Language: English
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Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates - Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main

Why is it that a little spice of deviltry lends not an unpleasantly titillating twang to the great mass of respectable flour that goes to make up the pudding of our modern civilization? And pertinent to this question anotherWhy is it that the pirate has, and always has had, a certain lurid glamour of the heroical enveloping him round about? Is there, deep under the accumulated debris of culture, a hidden groundwork of the old-time savage? Is there even in these well-regulated times an unsubdued nature in the respectable mental household of every one of us that still kicks against the pricks of law and order? To make my meaning more clear, would not every boy, for instancethat is, every boy of any accountrather be a pirate captain than a Member of Parliament? And we ourselveswould we not rather read such a story as that of Captain Avery's capture of the East Indian treasure ship, with its beautiful princess and load of jewels (which gems he sold by the handful, history sayeth, to a Bristol merchant), than, say, one of Bishop Atterbury's sermons, or the goodly Master Robert Boyle's religious romance of "Theodora and Didymus"? It is to be apprehended that to the unregenerate nature of most of us there can be but one answer to such a query. In the pleasurable warmth the heart feels in answer to tales of derring-do Nelson's battles are all mightily interesting, but,[xiv] even in spite of their romance of splendid courage, I fancy that the majority of us would rather turn back over the leaves of history to read how Drake captured the Spanish treasure ship in the South Sea, and of how he divided such a quantity of booty in the Island of Plate (so named because of the tremendous dividend there declared) that it had to be measured in quart bowls, being too considerable to be counted. Courage and daring, no matter how mad and ungodly, have always a redundancy of vim and life to recommend them to the nether man that lies within us, and no doubt his desperate courage, his battle against the tremendous odds of all the civilized world of law and order, have had much to do in making a popular hero of our friend of the black flag. But it is not altogether courage and daring that endear him to our hearts. There is another and perhaps a greater kinship in that lust for wealth that makes one's fancy revel more pleasantly in the story of the division of treasure in the pirate's island retreat, the hiding of his godless gains somewhere in the sandy stretch of tropic beach, there to remain hidden until the time should come to rake the doubloons up again and to spend them like a lord in polite society, than in the most thrilling tales of his wonderful escapes from commissioned cruisers through tortuous channels between the coral reefs. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 26862
Author: Pyle, Howard
Release Date: Oct 10, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English

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