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Title	The royal impostor
Author	Wakeham, P. J., 1910-
Publisher	Printed by Dicks & Co.
Place of Publication	St. John's, Nfld.
Date	1960
Description	Newfoundland author Wakeham's tenth novel is a tale of adventure about George Langford, a man who chooses to live the life of a pirate on the high seas of the 17th century; "Many legendary and historical tales have been written and told about the swashbuckling pirates that frequented Newfoundland's bays and coves during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but none of them are more exciting or more colorful than those of George Langford, the "Royal Imposter, " who in his boyhood days, was a reckless hoodlum roaming the docks of Liverpool and living by what he could pilfer from the larders of ships he found unattended." (foreword)
Subject	Adventure stories--Newfoundland and Labrador Seafaring life--fiction Sea stories, Canadian--Newfoundland and Labrador
Physical Description	398 p. Seafaring life--Fiction Sea stories, Canadian--Newfoundland and Labrador
Location	Canada--Newfoundland and Labrador
Local Call Number	PS 8595 A313 R88 c.2
Type	Text
Resource Type	Book
Format	Image/jpeg; Application/pdf
Collection	Centre for Newfoundland Studies -- Digitized Books
Repository	Memorial University of Newfoundland. Libraries. Centre for Newfoundland Studies
Language	Eng
Source	Paper text held in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies
PDF File	(118.31MB) -- http://collections.mun.ca/PDFs/cns/TheRoyalImpostor.pdf
CONTENTdm file name	167555.cpd