Westward ho! or, The voyage and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon in the reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875
Other Authors:	Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : C. Scribner's Sons, [1992], c1920.
Subjects:	Great Britain > History > Elizabeth, 1558-1603 > Juvenile fiction.
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Item Description:	"The typeface used in this edition is the same as was used in the original N.C. Wyeth edition published in 1920." "Reissued"--Book jacket p.[2]. Illustrated lining-papers.
Physical Description:	x, 413, [14] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:	0684194449 0684194430 (deluxe)
Author Notes:	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. (Bowker Author Biography)

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