Mad For Glory A Heart Of Darkness In The War Of 1812

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What if a naval captain went rogue with an American battleship? In October, 1812, as the 32-gun U.S. frigate Essex ventured out against the British enemy, only one man had any idea that this cruise would turn into the longest, strangest naval adventure in American history. That man was Captain David Porter, who had decided to run off with the navy's ship and its three hundred men to fight a separate Pacific war--one of privateering, pillaging, and orgies. Drawing on Porter's own writings and the accounts of eyewitnesses, the author memorably recounts the events of a dark and fatal voyage in which David Porter crosses the line from commander to cult-leader, from improbable fantasy to disastrous reality. In a tale so amazing that it reads like fiction, Porter, impelled by his own demons and by rivalry with the ghostly British buccaneer Lord Anson, took his men and boys on a seventeen-month mystery tour that did not end until he had disrupted the Chilean revolution, captured the entire English whaling fleet (manned mainly by Americans), vanished into the enchanted Galapagos, and re-emerged in Polynesia, where he made himself the conqueror-chief of the stone-age Nukuhivans. In the end, when he sought redemption with a glorious victory over a British opponent, he failed terribly and sacrificed the lives of one-third of his crew to his personal notions of heroism. Robert Booth tells the story of the ill-fated Essex with accuracy, immediacy, and a broad vision of its meanings as an epic of war, a gripping tale of the sea, a brilliant portrait of a disturbed and disturbing American hero, and a geo-political thriller that sheds new light on the origins of U.S. imperialism, the tragedy of missed opportunities, and the disastrous and permanent impact of Porter's rampage on the peoples of the Pacific.

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Genre : History
Author : Robert Booth
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
Release : 2015-11-05
File : 220 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780884484165


Golden Feather Or The Buccaneer Of King S Bridge

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Genre : United States
Author : Arthur M. Grainger
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Release : 1860
File : 112 Pages
ISBN-13 : CHI:088043781


With British And Braves

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Genre : United States
Author : L. K. Parks
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Release : 1898
File : 328 Pages
ISBN-13 : MINN:31951002064102X


Catalog Of Copyright Entries

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Genre : Copyright
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Release : 1961
File : 948 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105006280981


Congressional Record

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The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

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Genre : Law
Author : United States. Congress
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Release : 1917
File : 1562 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044107589848


Encyclopedia Of The Novel

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The Encyclopedia of the Novel is the first reference book that focuses on the development of the novel throughout the world. Entries on individual writers assess the place of that writer within the development of the novel form, explaining why and in exactly what ways that writer is importnant. Similarly, an entry on an individual novel discusses the importance of that novel not only form, analyzing the particular innovations that novel has introduced and the ways in which it has influenced the subsequent course of the genre. A wide range of topic entries explore the history, criticism, theory, production, dissemination and reception of the novel. A very important component of the Encyclopedia of the Novel is its long surveys of development of the novel in various regions of the world.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Paul Schellinger
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2014-04-08
File : 838 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781135918262


The Franco Prussian War

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Genre : Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
Author : Henry Montague Hozier
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Release : 1870
File : 526 Pages
ISBN-13 : OXFORD:N11611816


The Franco Prussian War

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Author : Henry M. Hozier
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Release : 1872
File : 684 Pages
ISBN-13 : BSB:BSB11122111


The Independent

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Author : Leonard Bacon
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Release : 1895
File : 904 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015084515512


Youth S Companion

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Release : 1875
File : 448 Pages
ISBN-13 : UTEXAS:059171109431787