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The Bookseller
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Total Pages | : 1632 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Bibliography |
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Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Cayman's 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail
Author | : Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton |
Publisher | : University Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2019-12-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0817359656 |
The greatest shipwreck disaster in the history of the Cayman Islands The story has been passed through generations for more than two centuries. Details vary depending on who is doing the telling, but all refer to this momentous maritime event as the Wreck of the Ten Sail. Sometimes misunderstood as the loss of a single ship, it was in fact the wreck of ten vessels at once, comprising one of the most dramatic maritime disasters in all of Caribbean naval history. Surviving historical documents and the remains of the wrecked ships in the sea confirm that the narrative is more than folklore. It is a legend based on a historical event in which HMS Convert, formerly L’Inconstante, a recent prize from the French, and 9 of her 58-ship merchant convoy sailing from Jamaica to Britain, wrecked on the jagged eastern reefs of Grand Cayman in 1794. The incident has historical significance far beyond the boundaries of the Cayman Islands. It is tied to British and French history during the French Revolution, when these and other European nations were competing for military and commercial dominance around the globe. The Wreck of the Ten Sail attests to the worldwide distribution of European war and trade at the close of the eighteenth century. In Cayman’s 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail: Peace, War, and Peril in the Caribbean, Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton focuses on the ships, the people, and the wreck itself to define their place in Caymanian, Caribbean, and European history. This well-researched volume weaves together rich oral folklore accounts, invaluable supporting documents found in archives in the United Kingdom, Jamaica, and France, and tangible evidence of the disaster from archaeological sites on the reefs of the East End.
The Beckoning Hand, and Other Stories
Author | : Grant Allen |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2021-04-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Grant Allen was born in Canada, educated in France and the United Kingdom and worked in many places including Jamaica, during his lifetime. He was primarily a scientist, turning only to literature in later life. This is a collection of stories full of melodrama and intrigue.
Re-Placing America
Author | : Ruth Hsu |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780824823641 |
This collection of essays and poems examines various recent literary texts and cultural arenas in North America and the Asia and Pacific regions for what they reveal of the ongoing struggles of indigenous people and people of colour for justice and autonomy.