A concise and engaging historical account of the events surrounding the emergence of the U. S. Navy. Over two hundred years ago, the United States was threatene

It was not mere impulsive action when Bron Hoddan started for the planet Walden by stowing away on a ship that had come to his native planet to hang all his rel

"The chapters in this volume were presented in 2005 at an international conference hosted and organised by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences"--Acknowledge

The first volume devoted to literary pirates in the nineteenth century, this collection examines changes in the representation of the pirate from the beginning