A high wind in Jamaica
By: [by] Richard Hughes.
Publisher: Chatto and Windus
Published: 1929
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Description: This novel chronicles two sensitive children's violent voyage from innocence to experience. After a terrible hurricane levels their Jamaican estate, the Bas-Thorntons decide to send their children back to the safety and comfort of England. On the way their ship is set upon by pirates, and the children are accidentally transferred to the pirate vessel. Jonsen, the well-meaning pirate captain, doesn't know how to dispose of his new cargo, while the children adjust with surprising ease to their new life. As this strange company drifts around the Caribbean, events turn more frightening and the pirates find themselves increasingly incriminated by the children's fates. The most shocking betrayal, however, will take place only after the return to civilization.
Notes: American editon (Harper & brothers) has title: The innocent voyage.