Victor Suthren – författare & böcker

Island of Canada

How Three Oceans Shaped Our Nation

AvVictor Suthren

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

201 kr

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To Go Upon Discovery

James Cook and Canada, from 1758 to 1779

AvVictor Suthren

E-bok

Engelska, 2000

93 kr

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To Go Upon Discovery begins with Cook's arrival in Canada in 1758 and ends with his appointment to take Endeavour to the South Pacific. In between these dates, we witness the siege of Louisbourg during the Seven Years' War, where Cook made his almost accidental discovery of the surveying techniques that distinguished him and gave him a prominent place in history. We see the development of his abilities while based in Halifax (1759-62), a port he knew better than any but his home port of Whitby, England. We are also party to the detailed description of Cook's Newfoundland survey of 1763-67.

Black Flag of the North

Bartholomew Roberts, King of the Atlantic Pirates

AvVictor Suthren

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

196 kr

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The incredible story of the “King of the Pirates,” who burst from the waters of early Canada to become a terror of the seas.He was tall, dark, and handsome, he wore fine velvets and lace, and in four tumultuous years he tore the guts out of the Atlantic. Bartholomew Roberts took over four hundred ships and rarely lost a fight at sea in his short, spectacular reign. Black Flag of the North tells the story of Roberts’s dramatic life, from his boyhood in rural South Wales through his days at sea in the slave trade. He set the Atlantic aflame from the Grand Banks to Brazil, and by blood and fire won his reputation as the fearless and feared king of the pirates.

Black Flag of the North

Canada and Bartholomew Roberts, King of the Atlantic Pirates

AvVictor Suthren

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2018

205 kr

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The incredible story of a man called “King of the Pirates” who burst from the waters of early Canada to become a terror of the seasHe was tall, dark, and handsome, he wore fine velvets and lace, and in four tumultuous years he tore the guts out of the Atlantic. Bartholomew Roberts took over four hundred ships and rarely lost a fight at sea in his short, spectacular reign. He set the Atlantic aflame from the Grand Banks to Brazil, and by blood and fire won his reputation as the fearless and feared King of the Pirates.Cast in a gripping narrative that combines historical accuracy with a novelist’s flowing prose, Black Flag of the North tells the story of Roberts’s dramatic life, from his boyhood in rural South Wales through his days at sea in the slave trade, culminating in the stunning events in Canada that opened his four-year piratical career, to his fiery end beneath British guns off West Africa.

Black Flag of the North

Canada and Bartholomew Roberts, King of the Atlantic Pirates

AvVictor Suthren

E-bok

Engelska, 2018

110 kr

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The incredible story of a man called “King of the Pirates” who burst from the waters of early Canada to become a terror of the seasHe was tall, dark, and handsome, he wore fine velvets and lace, and in four tumultuous years he tore the guts out of the Atlantic. Bartholomew Roberts took over four hundred ships and rarely lost a fight at sea in his short, spectacular reign. He set the Atlantic aflame from the Grand Banks to Brazil, and by blood and fire won his reputation as the fearless and feared King of the Pirates.Cast in a gripping narrative that combines historical accuracy with a novelist’s flowing prose, Black Flag of the North tells the story of Roberts’s dramatic life, from his boyhood in rural South Wales through his days at sea in the slave trade, culminating in the stunning events in Canada that opened his four-year piratical career, to his fiery end beneath British guns off West Africa.

Sea Has No End

The Life of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville

AvVictor Suthren

E-bok

Engelska, 2004

96 kr

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Short-listedfor the 2005 Ottawa Book Award for Non-fiction Soldier, sailor, adventurer, and philosopher, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville was a talented French officer whose remarkable career took him from the boudoirs of Paris to the flintlock battlefields of North America and on to the luch islands of the South Pacific. In this lively biography, author Victor Suthren follows Bougainville's career in North America during the Seven Years War and the American Revolution and his adventures in the South Seas. Written with a historian's eye for detail, The Sea Has No End is a fascinating portrait of the most stirring and dramatic events of the eighteenth century.

To Go Upon Discovery

James Cook and Canada, from 1758 to 1779

AvVictor Suthren

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2000

318 kr

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To Go Upon Discovery begins with Cook’s arrival in Canada in 1758 and ends with his appointment to take Endeavour to the South Pacific. In between these dates, we witness the siege of Louisbourg during the Seven Years’ War, where Cook made his almost accidental discovery of the surveying techniques that distinguished him and gave him a prominent place in history. We see the development of his abilities while based in Halifax (1759-62), a port he knew better than any but his home port of Whitby, England. We are also party to the detailed description of Cook’s Newfoundland survey of 1763-67.

Sea Has No End

The Life of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville

AvVictor Suthren

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2004

328 kr

Läs direkt efter köp

Short-listedfor the 2005 Ottawa Book Award for Non-fiction Soldier, sailor, adventurer, and philosopher, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville was a talented French officer whose remarkable career took him from the boudoirs of Paris to the flintlock battlefields of North America and on to the luch islands of the South Pacific. In this lively biography, author Victor Suthren follows Bougainville’s career in North America during the Seven Years War and the American Revolution and his adventures in the South Seas. Written with a historian’s eye for detail, The Sea Has No End is a fascinating portrait of the most stirring and dramatic events of the eighteenth century.