Manila galleon.
[1st ed.]
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Word Count
123,750 words, Guess
Page Count
495 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL5798825M
- OCLC Control Number1316379
- OCLC Control Numbermanilagalleon00maso
- Library of Congress Control Number60011643
- LibraryThing552819
Classifications
- LCCPZ3.M3855 Man
Description
Fiction based on historical naval history. Adventure and action on the high seas, charting the real life expedition of Admiral George Anson, charged with creating mayhem with the Spanish territories between 1740 - 1744, culminating in the capture of the legendary 'Manila Galleon', a Spanish treasure ship homeward bound annually to Spain. Mason's novel is crammed with tension, action, excitement and adventure, while providing a horrific portrayal of conditions in King George 3rd's English Navy. Particularly disturbing, yet fascinating, are the true and graphic accounts of mutiny and Cannibalism amongst shipwrected sailors and Anson's classic leadership skills, when faced with adversity, the deadly 'scurvy' and very hungry rats, openly eating sailors too weak to fend them off, on the Island of Juan Fernandez, the original setting of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe - based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, marooned on that Island 40 years earlier.
Description
Commodore George Anson, "Father of the Modern Royal Navy," sets out on his epic voyage to capture for England a fabulous Spanish treasure ship - the Manila galleon, "Prize of all the Oceans."
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