Orphans of the wind.
By: Illustrated by Milton Johnson.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Description: Twelve-year-old Jim sails from Bristol as deck boy on the "Four Winds," a blockade-runner bringing powder and guns from England to the Confederate States. After a difficult voyage, the ship sinks. Jim and some crewmates make their way to land and find themselves in the middle of the War