In September 1869 the passenger J. R. Kazallon boards the sailing ship Chancellor at Charleston, bound for Liverpool with a cargo of cotton. His diary records the voyage day by day as an uncertain course, a smouldering hold and a captain losing his grip turn an ordinary crossing into a struggle for survival, testing passengers and crew alike.
Verne without the science, a stark and harrowing survival story told in diary form. Download the free EPUB.