The First of the English: A Novel by Archibald Clavering Gunter

Description

Archibald Clavering Gunter was an Irish-American showman of the novel, author of the famous Mr. Barnes of New York, and in The First of the English he takes his readers back to the great sixteenth-century encounter between England and Spain. The story opens at sea in the small hours: a young skipper, hardly twenty-five, shaking the spray from his tarpaulin and groping to his binnacle, whose lantern is shaded lest its light betray the vessel’s whereabouts through the darkness of the night.

That lantern is the book in miniature — a man who must slip unseen along a coast that would destroy him. Gunter fills the tale with a Spanish señorita of the voice that charms in the dark, a young Spaniard in plumed steel, and the swagger and sword-work of the age, all handled with the infectious enthusiasm that made his novels bestsellers. A romance of the salt water with the Armada as its weather.

Why readers still come back to it

• A nautical romance of England and Spain in the age of the Armada
• Gunter’s theatrical, crowd-pleasing style at full sail
• A hero who must keep his light hidden and his love closer

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