Westward Ho!
or the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the County of Devon in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Eliza

I bought this edition thinking my adult son would want it for his collection on behalf of his children of the Scribner's Classics. I'd never read it. Turns out he already has it. I read it with respect and pleasure, finding in it, along with the work of Kingsley's contemporary Captain Frederick Mary......more

I enjoyed this book much more than I expected. I read it alongside my middle school child as part of her homeschool curriculum called Amblesideonline. In addition to this book we read selections from nonfiction also about the same time period by Winston Churchill in History of the English Speaking P......more

read for my nation, empire, and literature class. an english bestseller. fascinating from an historical and sociological perspective. an obviously nationalistic book. it was fun to write a paper on, though. and it made my recent robin hood obsession suddenly relevant.......more

First off, I didn't really get into this book until almost half-way through. The start seemed to be largely about Amyas Leigh, the protagonist, desiring to go to sea, and his romance with the character Rose. The story really gets going after Amyas loses Roses to the main antagonist, Don Guzman, and t......more