Bored with school and chafing at his father’s plans, Joe Bronson runs away to the San Francisco waterfront and signs on to the sloop Dazzler. He soon learns her skipper is an oyster pirate and thief, and finds a friend in ‘Frisco Kid, a young deckhand who longs for the respectable life Joe has thrown away.
An early London novel written for boys, drawn from his own youth among the bay’s oyster pirates. Download the free EPUB.