When Ann Waite discovers a battered longboat washed ashore in Algoa Bay, she is stunned to find two a badly scarred sailor and a little boy. As the man walks away into the morning mi…
It is the reign of Charles II and Barbary pirates are causing mayhem and terror in the Mediterranean. Nineteen-year-old Ralph Wrenn has been at sea since the age of ten. Recently promoted, he now serv…
After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally slashed, he survived only by pretending to be dead as the Redcoats patrolled the corpses of his Jacobi…
The Utrecht leaves Holland on an eight-month voyage to Batavia, on the other side of the world. The ship is overcrowded, and navigation around the Horn is down to the skipper’…
