Adventures of Roger L´estrange
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Daly, Dominick) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Adventures of Roger L´estrange: Sometime Captain in the Florida Army of His Excellency the Marquis Hernando De Soto Governor of Cuba, and Captain-General of All Florida; An Autobiography Translated From the Spanish, and Prepared for Publication My friend Mr. Dominick Daly, who has undertaken to edit the Adventures of Roger L´Estrange, desires a few words from me as a preface to the book. The intrinsic merits of the work are quite sufficient in themselves to recommend it to that large class of readers which delights in perusing annals of exploration, discovery, and adventure. The impressions and the varied incidents recorded by Roger are written in a language so like that of to-day, that we have to remind ourselves of the dates to make sure that the events related do not belong to the present generation. Liverpool was, however, only a fishing village, Manchester but an insignificant hamlet, and the Mersey but an obscure stream, at the time the story begins. The sentiments, also, which here and there find utterance might belong to one duly impressed with the moralities of Exeter Hall; though, when in the thick of the strife, the deeds of the hero are such as we might expect from a valiant of the period. What I most admire in Roger is that he is so fresh, naive, and candid, and can tell a straight story. Even Daniel Defoe, of whose style he reminds me, could not have told it better. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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