Peril on the sea
By: by Michael Cadnum.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780374358235
Subjects: Pirates -- Fiction; Armada, 1588 -- Fiction; Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In the tense summer of 1588, eighteen-year-old Sherwin Morris, after nearly perishing in a shipwreck, finds himself aboard the privateer Vixen, captained by the notorious and enigmatic Brandon Fletcher who offers him adventure and riches if Sherwin would write and disseminate a flattering account of the captain's exploits.