King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855

Nonfiction, History, British
Cover of the book King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 by E. Keble Chatterton, B&R Samizdat Express
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Author: E. Keble Chatterton ISBN: 9781455415618
Publisher: B&R Samizdat Express Publication: December 15, 2009
Imprint: Language: English
Author: E. Keble Chatterton
ISBN: 9781455415618
Publisher: B&R Samizdat Express
Publication: December 15, 2009
Imprint:
Language: English
According to the Preface: "I have in the following pages endeavoured to resist the temptation to weave a web of pleasant but unreliable fiction round actual occurrences. That which is here set forth has been derived from facts, and in almost every case from manuscript records. It aims at telling the story of an eventful and exciting period according to historical and not imaginative occurrence. There are extant many novels and short stories which have for their heroes the old-time smugglers. But the present volume represents an effort to look at these exploits as they were and not as a novelist likes to think they might have occurred. Perhaps there is hardly an Englishman who was not thrilled in his boyhood days by Marryat and others when they wrote of the King's Cutters and their foes. It is hoped that the following pages will not merely revive pleasant recollections but arouse a new interest in the adventures of a species of sailing craft that is now, like the brig and the fine old clipper-ship, past and done with. " According to Wikipedia: "Edward Keble Chatterton (September 10, 1878 December 31, 1944) was a prolific writer who published around a hundred books, pamphlets and magazine series, mainly on maritime and naval themes."
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According to the Preface: "I have in the following pages endeavoured to resist the temptation to weave a web of pleasant but unreliable fiction round actual occurrences. That which is here set forth has been derived from facts, and in almost every case from manuscript records. It aims at telling the story of an eventful and exciting period according to historical and not imaginative occurrence. There are extant many novels and short stories which have for their heroes the old-time smugglers. But the present volume represents an effort to look at these exploits as they were and not as a novelist likes to think they might have occurred. Perhaps there is hardly an Englishman who was not thrilled in his boyhood days by Marryat and others when they wrote of the King's Cutters and their foes. It is hoped that the following pages will not merely revive pleasant recollections but arouse a new interest in the adventures of a species of sailing craft that is now, like the brig and the fine old clipper-ship, past and done with. " According to Wikipedia: "Edward Keble Chatterton (September 10, 1878 December 31, 1944) was a prolific writer who published around a hundred books, pamphlets and magazine series, mainly on maritime and naval themes."

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