Miles Wallingford, heir to a Hudson Valley farm and master of his own ship, carries on the story begun in Afloat and Ashore. He sails for Europe in the years of the Napoleonic Wars with his old shipmate Moses Marble, is seized by British and French cruisers, loses ship and fortune, and must win back home and his beloved Lucy Hardinge.
Cooper’s late sea romance, full of seamanship and old New York, and essential for readers who finished its first half. Download the free EPUB.