Captains of adventure

by Roger Pocock

CONTENTS

Chapter		Page
I	The Vikings in America	[1]
II	The Crusaders	[7]
III	The Middle Ages in Asia	[18]
IV	The Marvelous Adventures of Sir John Maundeville	[25]
V	Columbus	[32]
VI	The Conquest of Mexico	[37]
VII	The Conquest of Peru	[44]
VIII	The Corsairs	[50]
IX	Portugal in the Indies	[55]
X	Rajah Brooke	[62]
XI	The Spies	[69]
XII	A Year’s Adventures	[81]
XIII	Kit Carson	[88]
XIV	The Man Who Was a God	[100]
XV	The Great Filibuster	[106]
XVI	Buffalo Bill	[112]
XVII	The Australian Desert	[123]
XVIII	The Hero-Statesman	[131]
XIX	The Special Correspondent	[138]
XX	Lord Strathcona	[142]
XXI	The Sea Hunters	[148]
XXII	The Bushrangers	[156]
XXIII	The Passing of the Bison	[162]
XXIV	Gordon	[173]
XXV	The Outlaw	[179]
XXVI	A King at Twenty-Five	[186]
XXVII	Journey of Ewart Grogan	[194]
XXVIII	The Cowboy President	[202]
XXIX	The Northwest Passage	[208]
XXX	John Hawkins	[215]
XXXI	Francis Drake	[219]
XXXII	The Four Armadas	[223]
XXXIII	Sir Humphrey Gilbert	[231]
XXXIV	Sir Walter Raleigh	[234]
XXXV	Captain John Smith	[237]
XXXVI	The Buccaneers	[246]
XXXVII	The Voyageurs	[252]
XXXVIII	The Explorers	[260]
XXXIX	The Pirates	[266]
XL	Daniel Boone	[272]
XLI	Andrew Jackson	[280]
XLII	Sam Houston	[282]
XLIII	Davy Crockett	[285]
XLIV	Alexander Mackenzie	[292]
XLV	The White Man’s Coming	[298]
XLVI	The Beaver	[302]
XLVII	The Conquest of the Poles	[307]
XLVIII	Women	[315]
XLIX	The Conquerors of India	[321]
L	The Man Who Shot Lord Nelson	[327]
LI	The Fall of Napoleon	[333]
LII	Rising Wolf	[340]
LIII	Simon Bolivar	[350]
LIV	The Almirante Cochrane	[357]
LV	The South Sea Cannibals	[363]
LVI	A Tale of Vengeance	[371]