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The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences
Autor: Barrow, Sir John
Nakladatelství:
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ISBN: 9781443202435
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2224 Kč
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2022 Kč
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Excerpt: OF THE MUTINY AND PIRATICAL SEIZURE OF H.M.S. BOUNTY: ITS CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCES. [By Sir John Barrow] LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. MDCCCXXXI [1831] CONTENTS PREFACE CHAPTER I. OTAHEITE CHAPTER II. THE BREAD-FRUIT CHAPTER III. THE MUTINY CHAPTER IV. THE OPEN-BOAT NAVIGATION CHAPTER V. THE 'PANDORA' CHAPTER VI. THE COURT-MARTIAL CHAPTER VII. THE KING'S WARRANT CHAPTER VIII. THE LAST OF THE MUTINEERS CONCLUSION ADDITIONAL NOTE ENDNOTES: PREFACE The Editor of this little volume (for he presumes not to write Author) has been induced to bring into one connected view what has hitherto appeared only as detached fragments (and some of these not generally accessible)the historical narrative of an event which deeply interested the public at the time of its occurrence, and from which the naval service in particular, in all its ranks, may still draw instructive and useful lessons. The story in itself is replete with interest. We are taught by The Book of sacred history that the disobedience of our first parents entailed on our globe of earth a sinful and a suffering race: in our time there has sprung up from the most abandoned of this sinful familyfrom pirates, mutineers, and murderersa little society which, under the precepts of that sacred volume, is characterized by religion, morality, and innocence. The discovery of this happy people, as unexpected as it was accidental, and all that regards their condition and history, partake so much of the romantic as to render the story not ill adapted for an epic poem. Lord Byron, indeed, has partially treated the subject; but by blending two incongruous stories, and leaving both of them imperfect, and by mixing up fact with fiction, has been less felicitous than usual; for, beautiful as many passages in his Island are, in a region where every tree, and flower, and fountain breathe poetry, yet as a whole the poem is feeble and deficient in dramatic effect. There still remains to us at least one poet, who, if...Hodnocení uživatelů:
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