Charles Kingsley · 1855 · sea

Charles Kingsley's Elizabethan adventure follows the Devon seaman Amyas Leigh, who sails with Drake and the privateers to the Spanish Main in search of gold and a stolen sweetheart, ventures up the Orinoco into the jungle, and returns to fight the Spanish Armada.

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   Bideford

   In the North Devon port of Bideford, the young giant Amyas Leigh burns to go to sea and to win the beautiful Rose Salterne.

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   Barbados

   Crossing the Atlantic, the adventurers make their first landfall in the flower-scented islands of the Spanish Main.

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   La Guaira

   On the Venezuelan coast they raid the Spanish and hunt for Rose, who has fled with the nobleman Don Guzman.

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   The Orinoco

   Amyas leads his men up the great Orinoco into the tropical interior, seeking a fabled city of gold and finding the maiden Ayacanora.

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   Plymouth

   Home at last to grief and revenge, the blinded Amyas sails with Drake's fleet to break the Spanish Armada off the English coast.