A jaded, wealthy writer books passage from Baltimore round the Horn on the four-masted sailing ship Elsinore, with his servant Wada and a fox-terrier puppy. Aboard he finds a remote captain, his daughter Margaret, a ferocious first mate and a crew of broken men, and the long voyage through storm and cold drives them toward violence.
A vivid late London sea novel, though its narrator’s racial ideas are those of 1914 and are pressed hard. Download the free EPUB.