Westward Ho!

Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Lambert Barnard, Henri Rousseau and Eugène Delacroix. Devon in the reign of Elizabeth: a Bideford boy goes to sea after the Spaniards, from the Caribbean to the Armada. Kingsley wrote it at speed during the Crimean War and dedicated it to a rajah and a colonial bishop; it sold enormously and gave a seaside town its name. The convictions of its a...