
Manila Galleon
One of the best sailing ship novels I have ever read. The story...
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One of the best sailing ship novels I have ever read. The story starts out in 1740 and ends in 1744 first during the War of Jenkin's Ear and into the War of Austrian Succession. A squadron of the Royal British Navy is sent to the Pacific to harass the Spanish with not enough trained men, a land force made of sickly pensioners, bad masts,... Enjoyable.Spent a lot of time from England to Canton and the capture of the Manila Galleon, then quickly summarized the long trip home. I bought this antique book somewhere thinking it would be just another boy book about some romanticised seafaring hero, but fun to read anyway.When after a mere fifty pages I had encountered adultery, press-gangs, corruption, rape, murder, scurvy and more of such pleasant stuff I was forced to re-evaluate. The story details the historic...