Westward Ho!

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To conquer our own fancies, Amyas, and our own lusts, and our ambition, in the sacred name of duty; this it is to be truly brave, and truly strong; for he who cannot rule himself, how can he rule his crew or his fortunes?"

Narration and Discussion: Salvation Yeo says, "I thank the Lord, who has given so wise a heart to so young a general." Do you agree? How is Amyas showing wisdom, or not? Words to look up: jocund, ordnance, burghers, rector, pedagogue, murrain, ochidore, profligacy. "Gloriana" refers to Queen Elizabeth. "Per diem" is Latin for "per day." "Is this hedgebantling to be fathered on you, Mr. Frank?" means, Are you responsible for this awful drivel? "Swan of Avon" refers to Shakespeare. Euphuism means affected (artificial) elegance, particularly in literary style; references to "euphuists" will come up several times in this book. Copywork: If any one shall be startled at hearing a fine gentleman and a warrior like Sir Richard quote Scripture, and think Scripture also, they must be referred to the writings of the time; which they may read not without profit to themselves, if they discover therefrom how it was possible then for men of the world to be thoroughly ingrained with the Gospel, and yet to be free from any taint of superstitious fear, or false devoutness. The religion of those days was such as no soldier need have been ashamed of confessing. Before reading: It might be useful, if you haven't done so already, to read at least the first two chapters of David Howarth's Voyage of the Spanish Armada, to get a sense of what was happening on the other side. Kingsley begins the chapter with a note: "I must do my best, rather using, where I can, the words of contemporary authors than my own."Words to look up: nobles (money), strata, primaeval, bower. Devon dialect words: "Iss" means yes, "roogs" means rogues, "praste" means priest, "marmaiden" means mermaid. Narration and Discussion: Write a newspaper account of the battle, or "interview" one of the participants and get his story. Chapter 32. How Amyas Threw his Sword into the Sea Or, again,” chimed in old Mr. Cary, “as they say in the North— “'Find a miller that will not steal,

Mr. Leigh (father of Amyas) refers to his oldest son and calls him Joseph. His son's name is actually Francis or Frank--what does his father mean by calling Frank Joseph and Amyas Benjamin? Chapter 2. How Amyas Came Home the First Time Narrations: What was the purpose of Don Guzman's story? What effect did it have on the various listeners? Chapter 13. How the Golden Hind Came Home Again Narration and Discussion: Amyas says, "If she has found holiness, it matters little to me where she has found it, Master Eustace, but that is the very point that I should be glad to know for certain." What does he mean? Kingsley wrote, "It is in memory of these men, their voyages and their battles, their faith and their valor, their heroic lives and no less heroic deaths, that I write this book; and if now and then I shall seem to warm into a style somewhat too stilted and pompous, let me be excused for my subject's sake, fit rather to have been sung than said, and to have proclaimed to all true English hearts, not as a novel but as an epic (which some man may yet gird himself to write), the same great message which the songs of Troy, and the Persian wars, and the trophies of Marathon and Salamis, spoke to the hearts of all true Greeks of old." Charles Kingsley's Views on Things Before you read: This chapter jumps ahead five years, to 1580, and a great deal has happened in that time.Take me," said Eustace, "if you will, sir. You, who complain of us that we keep no faith with heretics, will perhaps recollect that you asked me into this room as your guest, and that in your good faith I trusted when I entered it." Narration and Discussion: This chapter includes the uncomfortable scene of Amyas formally executing two agents of the Inquisition. Do you think he found this a difficult choice to make? Was it an act of justice, or of personal vengeance? Chapter 27. How Salvation Yeo Found his Little Maid Again McCourt, John (2015). Representing Race: Racisms, Ethnicity and the Media. SAGE Publishing. p.3. ISBN 978-0761969129. Hodges, C. Walter (1979). The Battlement Garden: Britain from the Wars of the Roses to the Age of Shakespeare (1st Americaned.). New York: Houghton. p. 116. ISBN 9780816430048. Rapple, Brendan A. The Rev. Charles Kingsley. An Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Criticism 1900-2006 (Scarecrow Press, 2007)

When the ship is damaged in a later encounter with the Spaniards, the crew beaches her and begins a march toward the fabled city of Manoa. It is a long and hazardous journey over high mountains and through a land of hostile Indians. They find no El Dorado, but a young priest of one of the tribes falls in love with Amyas and follows him the rest of the journey. She is called Ayacanora, and, although she is of an Indian tribe, she seems to have the look of a white woman. William Griggs, A Guide to All Saints Church, Clovelly, first published 1980, Revised Version 2010, p. 7. How is Salvation Yeo becoming a less positive influence on Amyas? Has his disappointment over the "maiden" darkened his own view? Chapter 30. How the Admiral John Hawkins Testified Against Croakers Kingsley was living at Northdown Hall in Bideford when he wrote Westward Ho!, one of his favourite haunts was the beach and the pebble ridge where he used to employ quarrymen to move large boulders so he could examine the marine life underneath’. The first part of this book is set in the English county of Devon, in southwest England, which is the only county to have both a north and south coast. It is known as a very seafaring place; Plymouth is on the south coast.Copywork: Let us rather open our eyes, and see in these old Elizabeth gallants our own ancestors, showing forth with the luxuriant wildness of youth all the virtues which still go to the making of a true Englishman. Let us not only see in their commercial and military daring, in their political astuteness, in their deep reverence for law, and in their solemn sense of the great calling of the English nation, the antitypes or rather the examples of our own: but let us confess that their chivalry is only another garb of that beautiful tenderness and mercy which is now, as it was then, the twin sister of English valor; and even in their extravagant fondness for Continental manners and literature, let us recognize that old Anglo-Norman teachableness and wide-heartedness, which has enabled us to profit by the wisdom and civilization of all ages and of all lands, without prejudice to our own distinctive national character. Charles Kingsley's novel Westward Ho! led to the founding of a village by the same name (the only place name in England with an exclamation mark) and inspired the construction of the Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway. A hotel in Westward Ho! was named after and opened by him. A hotel which was opened in 1897 in Bloomsbury, London, and named after Kingsley was founded by teetotallers, who admired Kingsley for his political views and his ideas on social reform. It still exists as The Kingsley by Thistle. [23] Kingsley was highly critical of Roman Catholicism and his argument in print with John Henry Newman, accusing him of untruthfulness and deceit, prompted the latter to write his Apologia Pro Vita Sua. [13] Kingsley also wrote poetry and political articles, as well as several volumes of sermons.

Kingsley dedicated the novel to Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, and Bishop George Selwyn, whom he saw as modern representatives of the heroic values of the privateers who were active during the Elizabethan era. Amyas spends time in the Caribbean coasts of Venezuela seeking gold, and in the process finds his true love, the beautiful Indian maiden Ayacanora. During the return journey to England, he discovers that Rose and his brother Frank have been burnt at the stake by the Spanish Inquisition. He vows revenge on all Spaniards, and joins in the defence of England against the Spanish Armada. When he is permanently blinded by a freak bolt of lightning at sea, he accepts this as God's judgement and finds peace in forgiveness. Kingsley, Frances Eliza (ed.) Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of his Life (Henry S. King, 1877) sympathetic, instructive; as thus:— “Famed Argo ship, that noble chip, by doughty Jason's steering, Feb 2007. ("Westward Ho! is an invigorating starting point, because it's the only place in the British Isles with an exclamation mark.")Much of central Devon is breezy moorland, bleak and barren enough; and there is another stretch of moor towards the north; but spurs from these high moors reach the coast, both north and south, and between these spurs are deep, shadowy combes, the valleys of the sparkling moorland streams. Vance, Norman. "Kingsley, Charles (1819–1875)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/15617. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)