Autobiography of James Silk Buckingham
Including His Voyages, Travels, Adventures, Speculations, S…

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Titel: Autobiography of James Silk Buckingham
Autor/en: James Silk Buckingham
ISBN: 1108038573
EAN: 9781108038577
Autor/en: James Silk Buckingham
ISBN: 1108038573
EAN: 9781108038577
Including His Voyages, Travels, Adventures, Speculations, Successes and Failures.
Paperback.
Sprache: Englisch.
Paperback.
Sprache: Englisch.
Cambridge University Press
7. Oktober 2011 - kartoniert - 424 Seiten
This two-volume autobiography of James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855), traveller, writer and social idealist, was published in 1855.
Preface; 1. Reasons for writing this autobiography; 2. Excitement of the French Revolution, in 1792; 3. My going to sea at length determined on; 4. Sailing from Falmouth, after adieus and struggles; 5. Second voyage to Lisbon in the same ship; 6. Disastrous issue for my third voyage to Lisbon; 7. Setting out on our march through Galicia; 8. The English fleet of Sir John Jervis entering the Tagus; 9. Complete change in the current of my life; 10. Life of ease and pleasure passed on shore; 11. Determination to resume my original sea-life; 12. Delay in the arrival of an expected ship; 13. First voyage to the West Indies in the Titus; 14. Portuguese merchants from Lisbon and Oporto; 15. Voyage to Virginia, in America, in the ship Rising States; 16. First appointment as Captain of a West Indiaman, at twenty-one; 17. First entertainment at a military mess-room; 18. Homeward voyage from the Bahama Islands; 19. Association with captains, merchants, and ship-owners; 20. Anticipations and preparations for the Mediterranean; 21. Departure from Gibraltar for Malta; 22. Departure from Malta for the Archipelago.
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