Captain MacWhirr of the steamer Nan-Shan is a man without imagination, who trusts his ship and distrusts books on storm tactics. Carrying some two hundred Chinese labourers home from Singapore, he holds his course into a typhoon in the China Sea, while his young mate Jukes and the crew battle the sea and the chaos breaking out below decks.
A tour de force of storm writing from 1902, as much about character under pressure as about wind and water. Download the free EPUB.