Athelstane Ford
- First published
- 1899
- Pages
- 232
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Restless with the dullness of provincial life, a young Norfolk man throws in his lot with his cousin Rupert and ships out aboard the privateer Fair Maid. What starts as a bid for excitement soon turns perilous. The voyage carries Athelstane Ford through rivalry, betrayal, and the hard usage of life at sea, then onward into the turbulent world of eighteenth-century India, where European traders and local powers were locked in a contest for wealth and dominion. Allen Upward wrote it in 1899, well before his verse drew Ezra Pound's admiration, as a plain-spoken historical adventure. It belongs to the sea-and-empire storytelling popular at the close of the Victorian age, and rewards readers who like their history delivered at a gallop.
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Book facts
- Author
- Allen Upward
- First published
- 1899
- Reading time
- About 6 hours
- Pages
- 232
- Language
- English
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online