This is a classic swashbuckler filled with swordplay and adventure. Peter Blood, a physician and English gentleman, runs afoul of the crown and is enslaved on a Barbados plantation.
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this book follows the escapades of a young man who enters the King's service with some ideas that run afoul of the standards of naval discipline.
A gripping saga of the sea that follows the disastrous voyage of the Grosvenor of the British Mercantile Marine, bound for Valparaiso. Aboard are a brutal and inhumane captain and chief mate. The ship's second mate is our hero.