The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3

Download or read book The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 written by George Augustus Sala and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3: Who Was a Soldier, a Sailor, a Merchant, a Spy, a Slave Among the Moors, a Bashaw in the Service of the Grand Turk, and Died at Last in His Own House in Hanover Square; A Narrative in Old-Fashioned English IN the last century - and many centuries before the last; but it is about the eighteenth that I am specially speaking - long before steamers and railways, or even frigate-built ships and flying coaches were dreamt of, when an Englishman went abroad, he stopped there. When he came back, if at all, it was, as a rule, grizzled and sunburnt, his na tive habits all unlearnt, and his native tongue more than half forgotten. Even the Grand Tour, with all that money could purchase in the way of couriers and post-horses, to em pedite matters for my Lord, his chaplain, his courier, and his dancing master, took as. 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.