Ringwood the Rover, a Tale of Florida. - Couverture souple

Herbert, Henry William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1275669824 ISBN 13 : 9781275669826

Editeur : Gale, Sabin Americana, 2012

Synopsis

Title: Ringwood the Rover, a tale of Florida.

Author: Henry William Herbert

Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana

Description:

Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.

Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.

Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.

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The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library

DocumentID: SABCP01500400

CollectionID: CTRG95-B224

PublicationDate: 18430101

SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America

Notes:

Collation: 55 p

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Philip that fair province from the French Huguenots of Coligny. The eyes of all that little group were intently fixed upon the sea, from which it would appear the apprehended danger if apprehended danger it weie, that gave rise to those takens of surprise and prepartion was most to be expected 5and in the visages of all, an evident expression of anxiety and doubt was marked, in its least doubt ful character. But in the face of no one there, were there such signs of perturbation and dismay, as in that of the governor. He was a man of large and heavy build, a veteran of many a bloody war, with limbs which, although deprived somewhat of agility and lightness by the unsparing hand of time, were cast in a mould of iron ;his features prominent, bold, and haughty, with a world of iron resolution in the firmly-compressed mouth and massive jaw, and a glance of intolerable fire in the dark eye; and his bearing, such as became a cavalier to whom the camp and court had been alike familiar from his first boyhood. But now his rich dress was in disarray; a leathern shoulderbelt with an immense two-handed sword attached to it, and a display of cumbersome and ill-wrought pistols thrust hastily into a broad buff-girdle, as sorted illy with a fair garb of courtly fashion; his long hair, once as black as jet, but now discolored with full many a streak of wintry gray, hung in disordered masses over his broad brow, lank, and uncurled, and graceless and on his brow the perspiration stood in drops, like bubbles on the bosom of some turbid stream and the deep olive tints of his complexion wore an unnatural and ghastly hue and, as he grasped a powerful perspectiveglass with which he ever and anon swept the ho rizon, his fingers might be seen to work in quick convulsive twitches, as though they would have bedded themselves into the polished brass. Nothing! he said, after a long and wi
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gale, Sabin Americana
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1275669824
• ISBN 13: 9781275669826
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 56
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible