Research Catalog

Title

Westward ho! / by Charles Kingsley ; illustrated by Edward A. Wilson.

Author

Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875

Publication

New York : Heritage Press, c1947.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wilson, Edward A. (Edward Arthur), 1886-1970
• Heritage Press (New York, N.Y.)

Description

xiii, 427 p. : col. ill.; 27 cm.

Summary

The novel was based on the experiences of Elizabethan privateer Amyas Preston (Amyas Leigh in the novel), who sets sail with Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh and other privateers to the New World, namely the Preston Somers Expedition and Raleigh's El Dorado Expedition where they battle with the Spanish. Set initially in Bideford in North Devon during the reign of Elizabeth I, Westward Ho! follows the adventures of Amyas Leigh (Amyas Preston), an unruly child who as a young man follows Francis Drake to sea. Amyas loves local beauty Rose Salterne, as does nearly everyone else; much of the novel involves the kidnapping of Rose by a Spaniard. Amyas spends time in the Caribbean coasts of Venezuela seeking gold, and eventually returns to England at the time of the Spanish Armada, finding his true love, the beautiful Indian maiden Ayacanora, in the process; yet fate had blundered and brought misfortune into Amyas's life, for not only had he been blinded by a freak bolt of lightning at sea, but he also loses his brother Frank Leigh and Rose Salterne, who were caught by the Spaniards and burnt at the stake by the Inquisition.

Subject

• 1558-1899
• Man-woman relationships > Fiction
• English fiction > 19th century
• Great Britain > History > Elizabeth, 1558-1603 > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

OCLC

• 2461713
• SCSB-11347303

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library