Georgian and Victorian Gibraltar: Incredible Eyewitness Accounts

Download or read book Georgian and Victorian Gibraltar: Incredible Eyewitness Accounts written by M. G. Sanchez and published by M G Sanchez. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drunken sailors, dandified British officers, hard-bitten Gibraltarian boatmen, polyglot Jewish rabbis, winsome Moroccan traders, moustachioed Spanish smugglers, cigar-smoking American adventurers, irascible Catholic priests, hoity-toity British military governors -- these and other emblematically colonial figures are to be found in Georgian and Victorian Gibraltar, a new collection of curious and surprising writings about eighteenth– and nineteenth-century Gibraltar compiled by M. G. Sanchez.