num_pages: 384
description: From one of Denmark's foremost writers here is his most impressive book to date-a roguishly fantastic adventure story of piracy slave owners witch burning shipwrecks desert islands and larger-than-life characters-the largest of which is fourteen-year-old Tom O'Connor a poor adventurous charming liar who lives with his mother and half sister at a tavern on the island of Nevis in 1639. Good and evil truth and lies right and wrong tug at this unlikely hero when he rescues a slave from drowning learns he is prince loses him travels the Southern Hemisphere in search of him and finally brings him home to Cape Verde hoping for a grand reward. But by the time Tom discovers that the prince is really a fisherman's son the loss of reward doesn't matter-his adventures have brought him no use for greed and as he says a reckless regard for other people's life and well-being.Translated from Danish by Tiina Nunnally.
language: English
title: The Ring of the Slave Prince
publisher: Dutton Juvenile