Amyas Leigh grows up in Bideford in the reign of Elizabeth, sails round the world with Drake, and joins a brotherhood of young men sworn to the beautiful Rose Salterne. When she runs off with a Spanish nobleman, Amyas and the hardened sailor Salvation Yeo follow her to the Caribbean coast of South America, into jungle, battle and a feud that runs on to the Armada.
A hugely popular Victorian adventure with a Devon town named after it; its fierce anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish feeling is very much of 1855. Download the free EPUB.