The seas and the wider world
3 books
Athelstane FordAllen Upward · 1900Athelstane Ford, a 1900 adventure novel by Allen Upward, is a first-person tale of a young Englishman who leaves his Norfolk home to seek treasure in the East Indies, facing battles, captivity, and rivalry with the cousin who becomes his enemy.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
The slave shipMary Johnston · 1924A 1924 historical novel by Mary Johnston about David Scott, a young Scotsman who fought for the Stuarts and, facing slavery in the colonies after Culloden, escapes from the Edinburgh Tolbooth and flees for his life.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
The Surgeon's DaughterWalter Scott · 1827A short historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1827 as part of the Chronicles of the Canongate. It follows a Fife surgeon's daughter, deceived by a treacherous suitor who sells her to an Indian rajah, and her rescue by a sea captain and Highland soldiers.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية