Sea robber
By: Tim Severin
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Hector Lynch -- 3; Adventures of Hector Lynch, Pirate; Hector Lynch -- 3.
Publisher: Charnwood
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9781444800463
Subjects: Large type books; Hector Lynch (Fictitious character); Pirates; Fiction
Description: Ambushed by sea robbers headed for the South Sea, Hector Lynch, pirate and fugitive, is obliged to navigate their vessel through the stormy seas off Cape Horn. There Hector uncovers the remains of a warship entombed on an ice float, its crew two skeletons - the ship's captain and his dog - both frozen to death. After he's abandoned in Peru, Hector learns that Maria, the woman who stole his heart and saved his life, is now living on the remote Thief Islands. On his epic voyage to reach her, he confronts a Japanese warlord, who submits trespassers on his island to a deadly duel, and a naked Stone Age tribe, who file their teeth to sharp points and sail boats that outpace the fastest galleon.
Notes: Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2009.

Hector Lynch follows his quest for the young Spanish woman, Maria, with whom he has fallen in love. His search takes him and his friends on a nightmare passage around Cape Horn where they come across a small warship entombed on an icefloe, her only crew two skeletons - the captain frozen to death in his cabin and a dog. The corpse is the long-missing brother of a local Spanish governor in Peru. In gratitude for learning his brother's fate, the governor tells Hector that Maria has moved to the Ladrones, the Thief Islands, on the far side of the Pacific. On the way there, Hector's ship picks up an emaciated native fisherman adrift on a sinking boat. He dupes his rescuers into thinking that his home is rich in gold. But his poverty-stricken island proves to be the jealousy guarded by a Japanese warlord who treats the visitors as trespassers. Only when Jezreel, the ex-prize fighter, defeats the Japanese swordsman in a duel can they escape. Reaching the Thief Islands, Hector allies with the native people, the Chamorro, to launch a night raid on the Spanish fort and is finally reunited with Maria. But will the young couple ever be able to settle down? As a known sea robber, Hector will only be safe where the law cannot touch him so their journey continues ...

"The adventures of Hector Lynch, pirate"--Cover.

Complete and unabridged.

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