The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous: Who was a Sailor, a Soldier, a Merchant, a Spy, a Slave Among the Moors (Complete)

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, New Age, History, Fiction & Literature
Cover of the book The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous: Who was a Sailor, a Soldier, a Merchant, a Spy, a Slave Among the Moors (Complete) by George Augustus Sala, Library of Alexandria
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: George Augustus Sala ISBN: 9781465549082
Publisher: Library of Alexandria Publication: March 8, 2015
Imprint: Language: English
Author: George Augustus Sala
ISBN: 9781465549082
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Publication: March 8, 2015
Imprint:
Language: 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 native 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 expedite matters for my Lord, his chaplain, his courier, and his dancing master, took as many years as it now does months to accomplish. There were no young novelists in those days to make a flying-trip to the Gaboon country, to ascertain whether the stories told by former tourists about shooting gorillas were fibs or not. There were no English engineers, fresh from Great George Street, Westminster, writing home to the Athenæum to say that they had just opened a branch railway up to Ephesus, and that (by the way) they had discovered a præ-Imperial temple of Juno the day before yesterday. Unprotected females didn't venture in "unwhisperables" into the depths of Norwegian forests; or, if they hazarded such undertakings their unprotectedness led them often to fall into cruel hands, and they never returned.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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 native 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 expedite matters for my Lord, his chaplain, his courier, and his dancing master, took as many years as it now does months to accomplish. There were no young novelists in those days to make a flying-trip to the Gaboon country, to ascertain whether the stories told by former tourists about shooting gorillas were fibs or not. There were no English engineers, fresh from Great George Street, Westminster, writing home to the Athenæum to say that they had just opened a branch railway up to Ephesus, and that (by the way) they had discovered a præ-Imperial temple of Juno the day before yesterday. Unprotected females didn't venture in "unwhisperables" into the depths of Norwegian forests; or, if they hazarded such undertakings their unprotectedness led them often to fall into cruel hands, and they never returned.

More books from Library of Alexandria

Cover of the book The Year After the Armada by George Augustus Sala
Cover of the book Nas Trevas: Sonetos Sentimentaes E Humoristicos by George Augustus Sala
Cover of the book The Crest of the Continent: A Summer's Ramble in the Rocky Mountains and Beyond by George Augustus Sala
Cover of the book The Lone Inn: A Mystery by George Augustus Sala
Cover of the book Romance of the Rabbit by George Augustus Sala
Cover of the book On the Art of Reading by George Augustus Sala
Cover of the book Under St Paul's: A Romance by George Augustus Sala
Cover of the book India in Primitive Christianity by George Augustus Sala
Cover of the book Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne, 1812-1813 by George Augustus Sala
Cover of the book Jack Buntline by George Augustus Sala
Cover of the book The Book of Hallowe'en by George Augustus Sala
Cover of the book Quatro Novelas by George Augustus Sala
Cover of the book The Parallel Between the English and American Civil Wars by George Augustus Sala
Cover of the book In the Days of Alfred the Great by George Augustus Sala
Cover of the book Chronicles of Border Warfare; Or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in That Section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in That Section of the State by George Augustus Sala
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy