Description: The Algerine captive by Tyler Royall The Algerine Captive tells the story of the upbringing, early career, and later enslavement of fictional Boston native, narrator Updike Underhill. The first volume chronicles Updike Underhills youth and early adulthood in America; the Preface suggests that its aim is to "at least display a portrait of New England manners, hitherto unattempted." [1] After detailing his family history, Underhill describes his birth, childhood, and early education. Upon the encouragement of a local minister, Underhills parents agree to prepare the narrator for college by placing him under the ministers tutelage. Underhills classical education, through which he learns Greek and Latin, provides him with the ability to recite copious lines of poetry, which his countrymen ridicule.[2] Not only is he mocked for his spouting of Greek poetry, which is unintelligible to all but himself, but he is actually challenged to a duel after writing an unintentionally insulting Greek-inspired ode to a young lady. Luckily for Underhill, the duel is discovered and preempted by the local sheriffs and constables before it can take place. This volume also gives an account of Underhills failed attempt to serve as a teacher in a village school, follows his travels through the Northern and Southern states as a physician, and discusses his service as a surgeon aboard a slave-ship that heads to Africa by way of London. In the final chapter of this volume, while Updike is on the African coast nursing five sick slaves back to health, he is captured and taken as a slave to Algiers. In the second volume, Updike describes his enslavement and gives an account of the country and people among which he is confined. By setting Algiers in opposition to America, this part of the novel leads Underhill to comment on and formulate his conception of what it means to be American. When he is freed at the novels conclusion, therefore, the message he imparts to the reader is a nation-building one: "My ardent wish is, that my fellow citizens may profit by my misfortunes. If they peruse these pages with attention they will perceive the necessity of uniting our federal strength to enforce a due respect among other nations...BY UNITING WE STAND, BY DIVIDING WE FALL." The Algerine Captive was popular enough that it was reprinted in England, becoming only the second American novel to achieve that distinction. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Details ISBN1507621205 Author Tyler Royall Short Title ALGERINE CAPTIVE Pages 262 Language English ISBN-10 1507621205 ISBN-13 9781507621202 Media Book Format Paperback Birth 1757 Death 1826 Year 2015 Publication Date 2015-01-27 Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Subtitle The life and adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:92669195;
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