Bullen admired the descendants of the Bounty mutineers on Pitcairn Island, and here sends one of them, a boy named Christmas, out into the wider world. A whale hunt, an island childhood, the arrival of evil from outside and a voyage round the world test whether a sincere Christian can survive among rough seamen.
A rousing sea story by the author of The Cruise of the Cachalot, who knew the sailor’s life firsthand. Download the free EPUB.