The Adventures of Robin Day
Author | : Robert Montgomery Bird |
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Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1839 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Robert Montgomery Bird |
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Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1839 |
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Author | : Montgomery Bird Robert Montgomery Bird |
Publisher | : Applewood Books |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2010-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429044691 |
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Author | : Robert Montgomery Bird |
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Author | : Robert Montgomery Bird |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2017-11-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780331237290 |
Excerpt from The Adventures of Robin Day The particulars of this eventful catastrophe, there were many good reasons why I, though so much interested in knowing them, should never succeed in making myself perfectly acquainted with. The scene of disaster was in the neighborhood of Barnegat, a place famous in the annals of shipwreck; and the vessel, there was little doubt, contained a rich freight of rum and sugar, and other West Indian products, which it was manifestly nobody's business to know how to account for. Besides, it was thought not improbable that the wreck of this particular schooner was owing less to the fury of the storm than to the instrumentality of the people of the coast - land pirates, as they have been called from time immemorial - Who were often accused in past days, as sometimes in the present, of setting up false beacons, to decoy un suspecting mariners to their ruin. I have even heard it said, there was a rumor at the time that the crew of the unfortunate vessel (whose disappearance could not be otherwise accounted for), had met with foul play from the wreckers which, if true, was a better reason than all for their keeping a veil of obscurity over the whole affair. But this rumor, after all, had no better foundation than surmise, and a disposition on the part of malicious people to explain the disappearance of the crew, which was undoubtedly a very remarkable feature in the shipwreck, in the most unfavorable way. It was more charitable to suppose they had been sud denly washed from the deck by some furious billow, which had carried away every thing above board and that I owed my pres ervation to being left nestling in the highest berth in the cabin, whence I was plucked by my robber preservers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Anonymous |
Publisher | : Porter Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2008-10-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1443754943 |
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Author | : Robert Montgomery Bird |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2018-01-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780267305049 |
Excerpt from The Adventures of Robin Day, Vol. 2 of 2 Containing Robin Day's first essay as'a quack doctor, and the wonderful effects of the Magian medicines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Robert Montgomery Bird |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2018-01-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780483634466 |
Excerpt from The Adventures of Robin Day, Vol. 1 of 2 My introduction into the world was of itself suf ficient to establish my claim to pre-eminence in mis fortune; for, from all I was ever able to learn, instead of making my appearance in the usual way, I came ashore, one stormy night in September, in the year 1796, Upon the coast of New Jersey, washed up by the sea, like a king-crab; with this advantage, how ever, that I had for my shell, or cradle, the battered hull of a Yankee schooner, which, if it did not keep me as dry and sang as was desirable, preserved me, at least, from being swallowed up by the raging bil lows. In other words, 1 was cast ashore in a wreck name unknown, as the gazettes say, from which I was taken, a puny little bantling of some twelve or fifteen months old, half famished and half drowned, the only living creature, save two ducks that were seeking in a coop, and a broken-backed eat in the forecastle, that escaped. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.