Westward Ho! (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Kingsley
- First Published: 1855
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: Sixteenth century
- Setting: England and South America
- Principal Characters: Amyas Leigh, Frank Leigh, Sir Richard Grenvile, Eustace Leigh, Rose Salterne, Salvation Yeo, Don Guzman de Soto, Ayacanora, Mrs. Leigh
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: England or English people, Sea or seafaring life, Shipwrecks, Adventure, Sixteenth century, South America or South Americans, Battles, Inquisition
- Locales: West Indies, South America, Devon, England
The Story:
Amyas Leigh had always had a secret longing to go to sea, but he had not spoken of it because he knew his parents thought him too young for such a rough, hard life. When he met John Oxenham and Salvation Yeo, who were recruiting a crew to sail to the New World after Spanish treasure, he begged to be allowed to join them, but his parents and Sir Richard Grenvile, his godfather, persuaded him to wait a while. The next year, his father died of fever, and his brother Frank went to the court of Queen Elizabeth. Then Sir Richard Grenvile persuaded Amyas’ mother to let...
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