The Legend of Captaine Jones: Relating His Adventure to Sea, His First Landing, and Strange Combat with a Mighty Beare: His Furious Battell with His

Publisher Marketing: Title: The legend of Captaine Jones: relating his adventure to sea, his first landing, and strange combat with a mighty beare: his furious battell with his six and thirty men, against the army of eleven kings, with their overthtow [sic] and deaths, his relieving of Kemper Castle, his strange and admirable sea-fight with six huge gallies of Spain, and nine thousand soldiers, his taking prisoner and hard usage: lastly, his setting at liberty by the Kings command, and returne for England. Author: David LloydPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U. S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02067900CollectionID: CTRG96-B3294PublicationDate: 16560101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Added engraved t.p. In verse. Sometimes attributed to Martin Lluelyn. The hero is apparently historical: Cf. DNB under Lloyd. Part 2 has special t.p.: The legend of Captaine Jones: continved from his first part to his end ... Illustrated cover. Collation: 2 pts Contributor Bio:  Lloyd, David David Lloyd, born in Dublin, is a writer and critic living in Los Angeles, California. ARC & SILL collects his five previous books of poetry: Taropatch (Oakland: Jimmy's House of Knowledge, 1985), Coupures (Dublin: hardPressed Poetry, 1987), Change of State (Berkeley: Cusp Books, 1993), Sill (Los Angeles: Cusp Books, 2006), and Vega (Los Angeles: Mind Made Books, 2009). As a critic, he works on Irish literature and culture and on poetry and aesthetics. His most recent critical book is Irish Culture and Colonial Modernity, 1800-2000: The Transformation of Oral Space (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He is also the editor of Cusp Books, a chapbook press based in Los Angeles.