Lad of Grit
eBook - PDF

Lad of Grit

A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times

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  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Lad of Grit

A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times

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About this book

Over the course of his career, author Percy F. Westerman penned dozens of action-adventure tales, many of which were set during World War I. However, the book that launched his literary career, A Lad of Grit, is set in the mid-seventeenth century. Readers of all ages will enjoy this tale of an intrepid young man who proves his mettle in a series of dangerous situations.

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Information

Publisher
The Floating Press
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781776528431
Edition
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Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Contents
  3. Chapter I - How the Tidings of the Restoration Came to Rake
  4. Chapter II - Of the Arrest and Escape of Increase Joyce
  5. Chapter III - Concerning My Journey to Portsmouth
  6. Chapter IV - How Judgment was Passed on the Dorset Smugglers
  7. Chapter V - Of My First Ship, the Gannet
  8. Chapter VI - Of the Finding of Pedro Alvarez, and of the Strange Tale that He Told
  9. Chapter VII - Concerning the Treasure Island
  10. Chapter VIII - Of an Encounter with an Algerine Corsair
  11. Chapter IX - I Lose the Little Gannet
  12. Chapter X - How I Defended the Foretop
  13. Chapter XI - Of the Manner of My Homecoming
  14. Chapter XII - The Smugglers' Cave
  15. Chapter XIII - The Escape
  16. Chapter XIV - I Set Out to Fight the Dutch
  17. Chapter XV - Of the Famous Sea Fight of Four Days
  18. Chapter XVI - I Meet an Old Enemy
  19. Chapter XVII - Showing that there Are Two Means of Leaving a Prison
  20. Chapter XVIII - The Veil is Partly Drawn
  21. Chapter XIX - How Three Horsemen Set Out for the North
  22. Chapter XX - What We Heard and Saw at Holwick
  23. Chapter XXI - Our Search for the Treasure
  24. Endnotes