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Across the Spanish Main: A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess

Author
Harry Collingwood and W. (William) [Illustrator] Rainey
Language
English
Subjects
Sea stories · Adventure stories · Boys
Shelves
Category: Historical Novels · Category: Adventure · Category: British Literature

The opening, in English.

Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England

Across the Spanish Main, by Harry Collingwood.

________________________________________________________________________ This book, of average length, is set at the end of the sixteenth century, when the English were in a state of war against the Spanish. The heroes of the story are two boys from Devon, a county in the south-west of England. They set off with a view to repairing the fortunes of the family of one of them, by chasing and capturing Spanish treasure ships.

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