Dazzled by Trafalgar, thirteen-year-old Tom Cringle goes to sea resolved to be the next Nelson. His log follows him through shipwreck, cruises on the Spanish Main, chases of smugglers and pirates, yellow fever and the dinners and dances of planter Jamaica; its pictures of slave society carry the attitudes of the 1830s.
A rollicking classic of the age of sail that Marryat’s readers and lovers of Patrick O’Brian will relish. Download the free EPUB.