Running the Blockade: A Personal Narrative of Adventures, Risks, and Escapes During the American Civil War (Classics of Naval Literature)

Taylor, Thomas E

ISBN 10: 1557508046 / ISBN 13: 9781557508041

Published by Naval Institute Press, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Running the Blockade: A Personal Narrative of Adventures, Risks, and Escapes During the American Civil War (Classics of Naval Literature)
• Publisher: Naval Institute Press
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557508046
• ISBN 13: 9781557508041
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: New
• Weight: 14 ounces

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Synopsis

Entertaining yet highly accurate, this narrative recounts a renegade English gentleman's role as a blockade runner.

About the Author

The translator of this work, Thomas Taylor, is known for his authoritative translations of the Platonists; he was practically the sole source of Neo-Platonic thought in the transcendentalist movement of New England. Iamblichus' "Life of Pythagoras" was a constant source of inspiration to the transcendentalists and a major influence on their writings throughout the Nineteenth Century. Taylor's work was enthusiastically acclaimed by Emerson, who referred to the translator as "a Greek born out of his time, and dropped on the ridicule of a blind and frivolous age."