Miles Wallingford, heir to the family farm of Clawbonny on the Hudson, runs away to sea as a boy with his friend Rupert Hardinge. Voyages to the East, the Pacific and the coasts of Europe bring shipwreck, pirates, French privateers and captures, while at home his sister Grace and Lucy Hardinge wait. Old Captain Marble becomes his mentor and friend.
A long, absorbing sea novel by the author of The Last of the Mohicans, continued in Miles Wallingford. Download the free EPUB.