Historical Fiction Kingston, W.H.G.: The Pirate of the Mediterranean ePUB v1.2 31 dec 2008

[mtravellerh]

Kingston, William Henry Giles (1814-1880), English novelist, son of Lucy Henry Kingston, was born in London on the 28th of February 1814. Much of his youth was spent at Oporto, where his father was a merchant, but when he entered the business, he made his headquarters in London. He early wrote newspaper articles on Portuguese subjects. These were translated into Portuguese, and the author received a Portuguese order of knighthood and a pension for his services in the conclusion of the commercial treaty of 1842.

A long book full of adventure and tense situations. I was a bit disappointed to find that the Pirate was a Greek who preyed mostly upon Italian, Greek and Turkish vessels in the Eastern Mediterranean, because I had hoped that Kingston would address himself to the problem in the previous century, where Barbary and Algerine pirates were harrying European craft, taking their passengers prisoner as slaves, whom they used to carry out the building works of their cities.

Great book. If you like pirate tales, this one's for you!

Have fun!

v 1.1 (TOC did not work correctly, right margin too small for ADE) 11 views
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[mtravellerh]

I have made v1.1 of this as the Toc did not work right and the right margin was too small for ADE.

[mtravellerh]

v1.2 because the special characters were gobbled up.Fixed.