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Excerpt from Privateers and Privateering
A few words of explanation are necessary as to the pretension and scope of this volume. It does not pretend to be a history of privateering; the subject is an immense one, teeming with technicalities, legal and nautical; interesting, indeed, to the student of history, and never comprehensively treated hitherto, as far as the present author is aware, in any single work.
The present object is not, however, to provide a work of reference, but rather a collection of true stories of privateering incidents and heroes of what the French term la course and as such it is hoped that it will find favour with a large number of readers.
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A few words of explanation are necessary as to the pretension and scope of this volume. It does not pretend to be a history of privateering; the subject is an immense one, teeming with technicalities, legal and nautical; interesting, indeed, to the student of history, and never comprehensively treated hitherto, as far as the present author is aware, in any single work.
The present object is not, however, to provide a work of reference, but rather a collection of true stories of privateering incidents and heroes of what the French term la course and as such it is hoped that it will find favour with a large number of readers.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
Contributors
Author
E. P. Statham
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780331575620
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
Page Count - 413
Paperback
Contributors
Author
E. P. Statham
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781332181490
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
Page Count - 415
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