Galeon de Manila

Description

659pp., hardcover in green cloth, with coloured dust-jacket, with texts only on pages.

First printing, Spanish language, published by Plaza & Janés, S.A., Barcelona.
Originally published in English as “Manila Galleon” in 1961.
Manila Galleon is a towering novel of the sea, recreating this renowned voyage round the world of George Anson, the father of the modern Royal Navy. Given command of an expedition to the South Seas, Anson had been ordered to harass the Spaniards, and to capture if he could the Manila Galleon, “the Prize of all the Oceans”. After many delays, Anson’s ill-fitted, poorly manned squadron sailed for dangerous and almost unknown waters.
In Manila Galleon, Frank van Wyck Mason has told a great tale of the sea as well as a superb story of one of England’s most able, daring and heroic naval commanders.