Bonfield Or The Outlaw Of The Bermudas A Nautical Novel

Bonfield, or The Outlaw of the Bermudas is a nautical adventure novel by Joseph Holt Ingraham (1809-1860), the American writer who was the most prolific novelist of the 1840s, producing scores of cheap paper-covered romances of pirates, privateers, and city mysteries. Ingraham, a Maine-born adventurer who later took orders as an Episcopal priest, claimed at one point to have written eighty novels in a few years, and his sea tales of daring outlaws and chases among the islands fed the same public that bought the story papers. Bonfield works the Bermuda waters with its outlaw hero, pursuit, and romance in Ingraham’s headlong style. His religious novels of the 1850s, led by The Prince of the House of David, later brought him a different fame. The book is a specimen of the antebellum American cheap fiction industry. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.