Westward Ho!: Or The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight of Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty, Queen Elizabeth

Charles Kingsley

Oct 2016 · The Floating Press

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Set sail for a rip-roaring, round-the-world adventure with Charles Kingsley's Westward Ho! The protagonist, intrepid adventurer Amyas Leigh, finds himself in the middle of a history-making expedition when he teams up with Sir Francis Drake on a trip to explore the Caribbean -- and cross swords with Spanish forces.

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Fantastic book, love the way it is written. I've read it 4 times.

About the author

Charles Kingsley, a clergyman of the Church of England, who late in his life held the chair of history at Cambridge University, wrote mostly didactic historical romances. He put the historical novel to new use, not to teach history, but to illustrate some religious truth. Westward Ho! (1855), his best-known work, is a tale of the Spanish main in the days of Queen Elizabeth I. Hypatia: New Foes with Old Faces (1853) is the story of a pagan girl-philosopher who was torn to pieces by a Christian mob. The story is strongly anti-Roman Catholic.. Hereward the Wake, or The Watchful Hereward the Wake, or The Watchful (1866) is a tale of a Saxon outlaw. The Water-Babies (1863), written for Kingsley's youngest child, "would be a tale for children were it not for the satire directed at the parents of the period," said Andrew Lang. Alton Locke (1850) and Yeast (1851) reflect Kingsley's leadership in "muscular Christianity" and his dramatization of social issues.