£9.95
Title: Westward Ho!
Author: Charles Kingsley
Publisher : James Nisbet & Co Ltd
Publication Undated (Presentation c1908)
Format: Hardback
Condition: Red decorative covers with some bumping to spine and corners. Front cover cracked at hinge. Pages are clean with no ink or pencol marks. Some tanning due to age. Pages are gilt edged. Presentation plate to front from St Thomas Sunday Schools Werneth c1908.
Book measures: 20cm x 13cm with 534 pages
1 in stock
Westward Ho! or The Voyage and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, Of Burrough, in The Country of Devon, In the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth;
Set initially in Bideford in North Devon during the reign of Elizabeth I, Westward Ho! follows the adventures of Amyas Leigh, 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 Rose’s elopement with a Spaniard.
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