Ross Wilbur, an idle young man of San Francisco society, is drugged and shanghaied aboard a shark-fishing schooner bound down the coast of Baja California. When the crew salvages a derelict, they find on board Moran Sternersen, a powerful Norwegian woman who becomes Wilbur’s captain and comrade in fights with beachcombers and Chinese pirates; its depictions of the Chinese are crude stereotypes of 1898.
Norris’s early sea adventure, rough and energetic, from the author of McTeague. Download the free EPUB.