FREE UNDER DRAKES FLAG: A TALE OF THE SPANISH MAIN PDF G. A. Henty,Gordon Brown | 304 pages | 10 Aug 2005 | Dover Publications Inc. | 9780486442150 | English | New York, United States Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main () - Jim Hodges Audio Books See what's new with book lending at the Internet Archive. Uploaded by librivoxbooks on June 29, Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest. Sign up Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main in. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3. Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main settings for this feature. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Publication date Usage Public Domain Mark 1. Read in English by Lynne Thompson; Mike Pelton; meridiculous; Fiddlesticks; deongines; Gabriela Cowan; Paul Simonin; KHand An exciting tale set on the high seas, in a period ruled by exploration, with the ever-present dangers of nature and the weather, together with pirates of the famed Spanish Main. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox. There are no reviews yet. Be the first one to write a review. Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main by G. A. Henty, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® George Alfred Henty 8 December — 16 November was a prolific English novelist and war correspondent. Henty was born in Trumpingtonnear Cambridge. He was a sickly child who had to spend long periods in bed. During his frequent illnesses he became an avid reader and developed a wide range of interests which he carried into adulthood. He left the university early without completing his degree to volunteer for the Army Hospital Commissariat when the Crimean War began. He was sent to the Crimea and while there he witnessed the appalling conditions under which the British soldier had to fight. His letters home were filled with vivid descriptions of what he saw. His father Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main impressed by his letters and sent them to The Morning Advertiser newspaper which printed them. This initial writing success was a factor in Henty's later decision to accept the offer to become a special correspondent, the early name for journalists now better known as war Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main. Shortly before resigning from the army as a captain in he married Elizabeth Finucane. The couple had four children. Elizabeth died in after a long illness and shortly after her death Henty began writing articles for the Standard newspaper. In the newspaper sent him as Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main special correspondent to report on the Austro-Italian War where he met Giuseppe Garibaldi. Henty was a strong supporter of the British Empire all his life; according to literary critic Kathryn Castle: "Henty Henty once related in an Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main how his storytelling skills grew out of tales told after dinner to his children. He wrote his first children's book, Out on the Pampas innaming the book's main characters after his children. The book was published by Griffith and Farran in November with a title page date of While most of the books he wrote were for children, he also wrote adult novels, non-fiction such as The March to Magdala and Those Other Animalsshort stories for the likes of The Boy's Own Paper and edited the Union Jacka weekly boy's magazine. Henty was the most popular Boy's author of his day. Blackie estimated in February that Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main were producing aboutHenty books a year at the height of his popularity, [note 1] [7] and stated that their records showed they had produced over three and a half million Henty books. He further estimated that considering the US and other overseas authorised and pirated editions, a total of 25 million was not impossible. His children's novels typically revolved around a boy or young man living in troubled times. Henty's heroes — which occasionally included young ladies — are uniformly intelligent, courageous, honest and resourceful with plenty of 'pluck' yet are also modest. Henty usually researched his novels by ordering several books on the subject he was writing on from libraries, and consulting them before beginning writing. Henty is Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main in Brompton CemeteryLondon. Henty's commercial popularity encouraged other writers to try writing juvenile adventure stories in his style; " Herbert Strang ", Henry Everett McNeilPercy F. Westerman and Captain Frederick Sadleir Brereton all wrote novels in "the Henty tradition", often incorporating then-contemporary themes such as aviation and First World War combat. Henty wrote works of historical fiction and all first editions had the date printed at the foot of the title page. The dates given below are those printed at the foot of the title page of the very first editions in the United Kingdom. It is a common misconception that American Henty titles were published before those of the UK. All Henty titles bar one were published in the UK before those of America. The simple explanation for this error of judgement is that Charles Scribner's Sons of New York dated their Henty first editions for the current year. The first UK Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main published by Blackie were always dated for the coming year, to have them looking fresh for Christmas. This title was published in book form in the UK inalthough the story itself had already been published in England prior to the first American edition, in The Boy's Own Annual. One such publisher and major modern advocate of Henty is the American scientist, homeschool curriculum publisher, and one-time political candidate Arthur B. Robinsonwho promotes the use of Henty's books as a supplement to his self-teaching homeschool curriculum. Even during his lifetime, Henty's work was contentious; some Victorian writers accused Henty's novels of being xenophobic towards non-British people and objected to his glorification of British imperialism [9] in such books as True to the Old Flag which supports the Loyalist side in the American War of Independence[17] and In the Reign of Terror and No Surrender! Henty's novel With Lee in Virginia has a protagonist who fights on the side of the "aristocratic" Confederacy against the Union. Henty's popularity amongst homeschoolers is not without controversy. McDorman states Henty disliked blacks and also, in Henty's fiction, that " Boers and Jews were considered equally ignoble". Goodenough, an entomologist remarks to the hero:. They [Negroes] are just like children They are always either laughing or quarrelling. They are good-natured and passionate, indolent, but will work hard for a time; clever up to a certain point, densely stupid beyond. The intelligence of an average negro is about equal to that of a European child of ten years old. They are fluent talkers, but their ideas are borrowed. They are absolutely without originality, absolutely without inventive power. Living among white men, their imitative faculties enable them to attain a considerable amount of civilization. Left alone to their own devices they retrograde into a state little above their native savagery [23]. In the Preface to his novel A Roving Commission Henty claims "the condition of the negroes in Hayti has fallen to the level of that of the savage African tribes" and argues "unless some strong white power should occupy the island and enforce law and order" this situation will not change. In the novel Facing Death: A Tale of Under Drakes Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main Coal Mines Henty comes down against strikes and has the working class hero of the novel, Jack Simpson, quell a strike among coal miners. A review by Deirdre H. Inon the bookjacket for Captain Bayley's HeirThe Times of London writes that Henty's character in With Lee in Virginia, "bravely proving his sympathy with the slaves of brutal masters" and escapes through "the devotion of a black servant and of a runaway slave whom he had assisted". The reviewer recommends the book. All Blackie 1st Editions of Henty were published in the year prior to their title page date. There is one known instance of a book title by Henty having been filmed, along with nine audio theater productions by Heirloom Audio [30] in their series "The Extraordinary Adventures of G. It's historical fiction, yet there's very little fiction. Who had the guts, the belief in God's sovereignty? I want to tell the stories that young people think, 'I could imagine doing something like that. There was a time in our country we really had big dreams, thought we could do big things. For some reason, we don't talk like that, take risks like that. It's amazing. William Wallace was a real person, had real struggles of his own. He had hopes and dreams and ambitions, struggles like anyone else, doubts and flaws.