Lost at sea, or, Robert Roscoe's strange cruise
By: Horatio Alger, Jr.
Series: Polyglot Press Alger series
Publisher: Polyglot
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Ocean travel -- Fiction; Shipwrecks -- Fiction; Islands -- Fiction; Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction; Uncles -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Lost at sea; Robert Roscoe's strange cruise
Description: On the orders of his wicked uncle, who stands to inherit a fortune, fourteen-year-old Robert Roscoe is pushed overboard from a Hong Kong-bound ship, after which he and his new friend Jack endure many hardships and adventures before being rescued.
Notes: First published in 1904 by The Mershon Company, Rahway, N.J., & New York.