Owen Kettle, small, red-bearded, quick with his fists and his revolver, and a chapel-goer who writes poetry in secret, is back at sea and on any coast where a desperate man can earn wages. These linked adventures take him through quarantine, a little wooden idol with jewelled eyes, a rebellion put down his own way, a new republic, a looted steamer, telegraph-wire thieves, a derelict and a plan to carry off an heiress.
Brisk, salty adventure about one of the most popular heroes of late-Victorian magazine fiction. Download the free EPUB.