In May 1843, as the whaling fleet prepares to sail from Stromness, the young narrator is late for school, and from there his story widens into a world of island pilots, shipwrecks and secrets in the shingle. Sandy Ericson the pilot, the dominie Andrew Drever and the narrator’s sister Jessie are caught up in a mystery that soon brings tragedy and a sentence of transportation.
A strong boys’ adventure of 1891, full of the sea and the treeless islands of Orkney. Download the free EPUB.