As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

The Phamtom Death, Etc

Clark, Russell William

History

BiblioLife

The Wreck of the “Grosvenor” tells of the adventures of Edward Royle, the second mate on a sailing ship travelling from England to South America in the nineteenth century. With a hard-hearted captain and a mutinous crew, this was never going to be an easy voyage. When Royle spots a vessel foundering at sea, the trouble really starts and he is forced to chose between duty and conscience.  The Wreck of the “Grosvenor” is perhaps William Clark Russell’s most famous book. John Sutherland, Emeritus Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London described this as “the most popular mid-Victorian melodrama of adventure and heroism at sea”.  This new edition from Solis Press of the 1877 bestseller has been completely revised and includes illustrations from the first US publication. The book also features a section about the author and his life, written specially for this edition.

Wreck of the Grosvenor

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Solis Press

List, Ye Landsmen!: A Romance of Incident

The Frozen Pirate

William Clark Russell is best-loved for his seafaring novels of the Victorian era. He was one of the most famous novelists of his time. In this book Clark Russell departs from his usual realistic style and enters into the realms of the supernatural and miraculous. This story finds Paul Rodney shipwrecked and discovering a pirate ship that has been frozen in ice for fifty years. Rodney, desperate for fuel and food, searches the icy ship for stores. While thawing out his finds, one of the men trapped in the frozen ship revives. What will happen with the now-thawed pirate and the shipwrecked Rodney? The book also includes an illustrated description of the author’s life and an essay on reanimation speculating about Clark Russell’s possible influences.

From Mr. Clark Russell: This little volume is the fruits of an occasional spell of leisure. It is offered to the public because many might be glad to possess a cheap book of convenient size that would enable them to satisfy themselves without trouble about the meaning of nautical words often met with, but not always intelligible. I do not pretend that it is exhaustive---scores of words of which I may never have heard, are no doubt wanting; nor will I affirm that every term is accurately defined, though I have done my best to be exact. The Publisher is pleased to be able to offer this new edition of William Clark Russell's 1883 A-Z listing of sea-terms. It is hoped that the book will enhance the reader's enjoyment of Mr. Clark Russell's many fine seafaring stories. This edition includes an appendix with drawings of a ship's sails and four types of ships defined in this book.

Sailors' Language: A Collection of Sea-terms and their Definitions

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Marooned

Jilted! Or, My Uncle's Scheme, Volume 2

United States

Alpha Edition

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