A boy leaves his family’s old moated manor house to go to sea, and his voyage takes him up the Amazon, among the Falklands, round Cape Horn, through Chile and Robinson Crusoe’s island, to the land of the Incas, Mexico and California. Kingston mixes adventure with travelogue, and his scorn for Mexicans and others reflects Victorian prejudice.
Long, crowded boys’ adventure by a master of the Victorian sea story. Download the free EPUB.