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Author | : Robin Lloyd |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2013-10-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1574093215 |
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Lyme, Connecticut, early nineteenth century. Elisha Ely Morgan is a young farm boy who has witnessed firsthand the terror of the War of 1812. Troubled by a tumultuous home life ruled by the fists of their tempestuous father, Ely's two older brothers have both left their pastoral boyhoods to seek manhood through sailing. One afternoon, the Morgan family receives a letter with the news that one brother is lost at sea; the other is believed to be dead. Scrimping as much savings as a farm boy can muster, Ely spends nearly every penny he has to become a sailor on a square-rigged ship, on a route from New York to London—a route he hopes will lead to his vanished brother, Abraham. Learning the brutal trade of a sailor, Ely takes quickly to sea-life, but his focus lies with finding Abraham. Following a series of cryptic clues regarding his brother's fate, Ely becomes entrenched in a mystery deeper than he can imagine. As he feels himself drawing closer to an answer, Ely climbs the ranks to become a captain, experiences romance, faces a mutiny, meets Queen Victoria, and befriends historical legends such as Charles Dickens in his raucous quest.
Author | : Gilbert Hackforth JONES |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1941 |
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Author | : Dana G. Prescott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1961 |
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Author | : John Western |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780816619856 |
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Author | : Robin Lloyd |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2018-03-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1493032275 |
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Harbor of Spies is an historical novel set in Havana in 1863 during the American Civil War, when the Spanish colonial city was alive with intrigue and war-related espionage. The protagonist—a young American ship captain named Everett Townsend—is pulled into the war, not as a Naval officer, as he had once hoped, but as the captain of a blockade-running schooner. The rescue of a man outside Havana harbor sets in motion a plot where Townsend finds himself trapped by circumstances beyond his control. He soon realizes how this good deed has put his own life in danger, entangling him in a sensitive murder investigation. Townsend is forced to work for a profiteering Spanish merchant who introduces him to a world of spies, blockade runners, and slave traders. As a foreigner and an outsider in Cuba, he struggles to maintain his own sense of identity. As he grapples with the uncertain moral terrain he finds in Havana, Townsend becomes ever more involved with the mystery surrounding the murder. Even at sea, where his ship-handling skills are put to the ultimate test against the Navy’s powerful gunships, he finds he is unable to avoid reminders about the unsolved murder of a top English diplomat. From the bars, to the docks, to the dance halls, Townsend’s path moves from colonial Havana to the slave plantations in the interior. There, amid the harsh cruelty he discovers in the Cuban countryside, he unexpectedly begins to unravel a family mystery. Together with the daughter of an American innkeeper in Havana, he confronts the veiled, dangerous forces he finds on the island. The novel is a richly drawn portrait of Spanish colonial Havana at a time when the city was flush with sugar wealth and filled with signs of the American Civil War. It is a realistic look at Cuba’s role in the war and the importance of the scores of blockade-running ships—both sail and steam—that ran the gauntlet of the Union blockade from Havana into the Gulf of Mexico.
Author | : Ken Barnes |
Publisher | : I.B. Tauris |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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This is an inspiring memoir of a colonial life, set against the background of the ending of the British Empire. Evacuated as a schoolboy from England to Malaya in 1940 and then to Australia, Barnes returned to England in 1943 while the U-boat war was still at its height. After university, he left England again to join the Colonial Administrative Service in Nigeria in 1954 as that country was rushed from Protectorate to independence. While still on his first tour he caught polio, which left him severely paralysed, but was able to continue working. In 1960, he was transferred to Malawi, where the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was about to be dismantled even more speedily, and remained there until 1971, by which time the budget was balanced and he was able to hand over as Permanent Secretary of the Malawian Treasury to a Malawian. On his return from Africa soon after this, Barnes was appointed to the staff of the European Commission in Brussels, specialising in development aid to former European colonies. Tragically his wife died of leukaemia shortly after their arrival there and when the expansion of the Community provided the opportunity to take early retirement in 1987, he did so, returning to an England in which he had never before lived on any long-term basis. Full of vivid stories and colourful anecdotes about the management of Empire, this moving personal history charts the author's journey from his childhood in Malaya before the Second World War to his present retirement in Hungerford.
Author | : Arthur Kroeger |
Publisher | : University of Alberta |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2007-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780888644732 |
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In the 1920s, 20,000 Mennonites left the newly formed Soviet Union and emigrated to Canada. Among them were Heinrich and Helena Kroeger and their five children. Based on Heinrich's diaries and letters, and archival research, Hard Passage speaks to the indomitable spirit of Mennonite immigrants to the Canadian West.
Author | : Alan Armstrong |
Publisher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780851155821 |
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Studies of Kent's economic history confirm the industrial revolution to have been less cataclysmic and more widespread then formerly accepted.
Author | : Lewis Innes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 836 |
Release | : 1816 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Robin Lloyd |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2023-05-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1493072323 |
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Five months after the end of the Civil War, Acting Navy Lieutenant Everett Townsend is awaiting discharge in Key West. The end of the war has left him uncertain about his future and full of regret about the end of his relationship with Emma, the Cuban American daughter of a Havana boarding house owner. His Spanish grandmother- a slave owner who runs a prosperous sugar plantation in the Cuban countryside- is dreaming that Everett will return and take over the family business, a prospect that sickens him. Returning from a routine supply mission from Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, he and his men are caught in a hurricane and witness a shipwreck in the Marquesas Keys. When they investigate, they discover a locked cargo hold with the dead bodies of Black freedmen. When Townsend reports this unsettling incident to his distracted Naval commander in Key West, he’s encouraged to drop the matter. But he can’t shake his suspicions that the poor souls from the cargo hold were destined for re-enslavement in the sugar fields of Spanish Cuba. The murder of an American sailor in a Cuban port provides Townsend with a reason to return to Cuba and continue his investigation even as it reunites him with Emma who has joined the secretive Cuban resistance to Spanish colonial rule. A rescue of a Navy veteran leads to more clues and helps convince Townsend to become a government informant operating in the interior of Cuba. He goes to live with his Spanish grandmother at her sugar plantation in the Cuban countryside. There Townsend finds himself facing an impossible choice between the Cuban-American woman he loves and his tradition-bound Spanish grandmother. As he grapples with this clash of personalities, Townsend uncovers the details of a conspiracy which forces him to come face to face with his own family’s close ties to slavery.