03249nam 2200553 450 991046482380332120200520144314.01-61168-562-1(CKB)3710000000121587(EBL)1524252(SSID)ssj0001305270(PQKBManifestationID)11861180(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001305270(PQKBWorkID)11257176(PQKB)10396071(MiAaPQ)EBC1524252(OCoLC)890575626(MdBmJHUP)muse33795(Au-PeEL)EBL1524252(CaPaEBR)ebr10878093(CaONFJC)MIL616189(OCoLC)881162542(EXLCZ)99371000000012158720140609h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAt the point of a cutlass the pirate capture, bold escape, and lonely exile of Philip Ashton /Gregory N. Flemming ; designed by Mindy Basinger HillLebanon, New Hampshire :ForeEdge,2014.©20141 online resource (265 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61168-515-X Includes bibliographical references and index.July 19, 1723 -- The Rebecca -- The capture -- To the Azores -- Dangerous waters -- Roatan -- The Baymen -- The Bay of Honduras -- As one coming from the dead -- "Ashton's memorial" -- Pirate executions and pirate treasure.Taken in a surprise attack near Nova Scotia in June 1722, Ashton was forced to sail across the Atlantic and back with a crew under the command of Edward Low, a man so vicious he tortured victims by slicing off an ear or nose and roasting them over a fire. "A greater monster," one colonial official wrote, "never infested the seas." Ashton barely survived the nine months he sailed with Low's crew -- he was nearly shot in the head at gunpoint, came close to drowning when a ship sank near the coast of Brazil, and was almost hanged for secretly plotting a revolt against the pirates. Like many forced men, Ashton thought constantly about escaping. In March of 1723, he saw his chance when Low's crew anchored at the secluded island of Roatan, at the western edge of the Caribbean. Ashton fled into the thick, overgrown woods and, for more than a year, had to claw out a living on the remote strip of land, completely alone and with practically nothing to sustain him. The opportunity to escape came so unexpectedly that Ashton ran off without a gun, a knife, or even a pair of shoes on his feet. Yet the resilient young castaway -- who has been called America's real-life Robinson Crusoe -- was able to find food, build a crude shelter, and even survive a debilitating fever brought on by the cool winter rains before he was rescued by a band of men sailing near the island.Electronic books.972.83030924Flemming Gregory N.1055276Hill Mindy BasingerMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464823803321At the point of a cutlass2488564UNINA03032nam 22005292 450 991079860150332120170712100742.01-78138-233-61-78138-465-7(CKB)3710000000881994(StDuBDS)EDZ0001528622(UkCbUP)CR9781781384657(Au-PeEL)EBL4803052(CaPaEBR)ebr11341564(OCoLC)961105765(MiAaPQ)EBC4803052(EXLCZ)99371000000088199420170307d2015|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMagazines, travel, and middlebrow culture Canadian periodicals in English and French, 1925-1960 /Faye Hammill, Michelle Smith[electronic resource]Liverpool :Liverpool University Press,2015.1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2017).1-78138-140-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.A century ago, the golden age of magazine publishing coincided with the beginning of a golden age of travel. Images of speed and flight dominated the pages of the new mass-market periodicals. Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture centres on Canada, where commercial magazines began to flourish in the 1920s alongside an expanding network of luxury railway hotels and transatlantic liner routes. The leading monthlies - among them Mayfair, Chatelaine, and La Revue Moderne - presented travel as both a mode of self-improvement and a way of negotiating national identity.This book announces a new cross-cultural approach to periodical studies, reading both French- and English-language magazines in relation to an emerging transatlantic middlebrow culture. Mainstream magazines, Hammill and Smith argue, forged a connection between upward mobility and geographical mobility. Fantasies of travel were circulated through fiction, articles, and advertisements, and used to sell fashions, foods, and domestic products as well as holidays. For readers who could not afford a trip to Paris, Bermuda, or Lake Louise, these illustrated magazines offered proxy access to the glamour and prestige increasingly associated with travel.TourismCanadaHistory20th centuryTravelHistory20th centuryTravelPeriodicalsHistory20th centuryCanadian periodicalsHistory20th centuryTourismHistoryTravelHistoryTravelHistoryCanadian periodicalsHistory306.481909710904Hammill Faye607507Smith Michelle1974-UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910798601503321Magazines, travel, and middlebrow culture3675231UNINA